ABSTRACT
One of the latest resolution on the human right to water and sanitation by the Human Rights Council specifies that the right to water 'entitles everyone, without discrimination, to have access to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic use'. The Human Rights Council resolution stresses that 'the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation is derived from the right to an adequate standard of living and inextricably related to the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, as well as the right to life and human dignity'. Bolivia introduced a resolution in the UN General Assembly that led to the political recognition of the 'right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights' even though the resolution was not adopted by consensus.
