The numbers are revealing. Forty percent of Guatemalans do not have access to running water inside their home. And for ...

The human right to water and sanitation. On 28 July 2010, through Resolution 64/292, the United Nations General Assembly explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation and ...

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, health and human rights advocates have increasingly called for the US government to recognize the human right to water and end the local ...

It has been a long time coming, but on July 26, 2010, the U.N, General Assembly: “Declares the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full ...

World Water Day is an opportunity to strengthen the connection between the rights to water and food, ... OPINION: As climate change impacts accelerate, we need to re-think the human right to water.

Without water, humans simply cannot survive, much less flourish. Yet the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) nowhere included water in its enumeration of basic rights. Subsequent ...

One of these global failures was the failure to acknowledge a formal human right to water. There is a formal international human right to life, to human health, to an adequate standard of living, to ...

Activists around the world chant the slogan that "water is a human right." Yet more than a billion poor people in the world today lack access to safe drinking water. Twelve million of them die ...

In 2010, when the U.N. General Assembly voted to recognize the human rights to water and sanitation, the U.S. abstained, arguing that water and sanitation are not human rights.

The human right to water and sanitation. On 28 July 2010, through Resolution 64/292, the United Nations General Assembly explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation and ...