Water and sanitation have been formally recognised as human rights as they are indispensable for the full enjoyment of the right to life, the right to health and the right to dignity.
However, as recommended by the Independent Expert, there is a process underway to recognise water and sanitation as individual rights. The protection and fulfilment of the rights to water and sanitation requires specific measures, and therefore should be fully recognised as autonomous human rights.
All human beings depend on a daily amount of safe drinking water for consumption, personal hygiene and subsistence, and on a hygienic and dignified method for excreta disposal to avoid disease.
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In my country this situation is completely different: we all have water to wash, to clean, to drink and to swim and play with it. It's so current to have water in developed countries that we don't think about it too much, and we waste water again and again. It would be better if everyone of us would save some water, also because we're going on a very hot age with climatic change.
In Africa, there's so many people that can't drink potable water, and have with this lack of hygiene malaria and other dangerous diseases that wouldn't be there if the right of water and sanitation would be entirely respected and accomplished.
We possibly can't do so much to solve the problem, but I'm sure that if we all together save water, and we're careful about this aspect we surely can solve the problem of zones that are so dry. People then, could drink and satisfy, a little better, their essential needs.
Paula.
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