The human right to water and sanitation

Abstract

Despite we are in a context of climate change, water being an essential element for the survival of all living beings and a prior base for the development of other rights (such as the right to life, the right to adequate food, the right to health or the right to work) the truth is that the right to water and sanitation has not been recognized, even as a minimum, in various constitutional texts, which in our opinion is very paradoxical. The purpose of this research is to draw attention to this issue at the same time as to highlight a positivist tendency of this right that is beginning to be recognized in various legal texts, including constitutional ones, and, ultimately, to defend the need for intervention by part of the public powers in this matter.