The Human Rights Without Water

It is fundamental right of the humankind to have				shape of a United Nations treaty on water
access to safe drinking water. Unfortunately the				accessibility. People of the world have felt the
charter of the basic human rights has not envisaged				urgency of the issue and are struggling for water
the provision of drinking water to the people.				rights. Different non governmental organisations and
According to the facts and figures of the the world				humanitarian organizations are trying to awake the
health organisation more than one billion people in the				conscience of the governments and business tycoons
third world countries, that is 20 percent of the global				to except water from their monetary deals. They
population, have no access to secure drinking water .				are striving rightly to invoke an international
Only 46 % percent people of Africa have access to				mechanism on the right to water. The too much
safe drinking water. Sometime only twenty percent				industrialization had adversely affected the climate
of the population of some countries have the access				and water resources of the world. Water is scarce
to safe drinking water. 2.2 million deaths per year				and its reservoirs are in danger of contamination and
occur due to unhygienic water. Not to speak of				pollution. Moreover the people are obliged to get
human beings even the animals and plants are not				water from private corporations on high and
getting enough water.				exploitative prices. The efforts of the World Bank by
Water should not have been a commercial product				privatizing the water services have failed due to
like that of a well known multinational corporation				towering water rates, unavailability to the poor,
that is marketed and sold out all over the world via				inefficient services and pollution.
media. But the superior creature has established his				The best way to solve the water crises is Covenant
hegemony over the natural resources due to its				on water by the United Nation. It is the need of the
avariciousness. The sages of the times had not freed				hour to introduce a UN Covenant to re-affirm the
the water from the cruel clutches of greed.The				vital role of government in supplying water to the
writers of the UN charter of human rights had also				people at affordable price or free of cost, if possible.
not included the access to clean drinking water in the				The fact that water is not a recognized human right
list of basic human rights!!!				has given the chance to the private companies to
Therefore it has become a million dollars business and				exploit the situation. If the UN is involved in the
no state or person seems in the mood to provide				water issue and the states sign a covenant on the
the people with the pure or impure drinking water on				water, this exploitation of the private sector might
human grounds.				be reduced, if not completely eradicated. Although
To assure freedom, justice, and equality to its people				Covenant on water will not solve the water crisis of
is the primary obligation of a state. These privileges				this world,yet it would help the people and the states
destined for the citizens of a state are considered as				to stop the situation from going bad to worse.
the basic human rights. A social writer satirically				The two billion people living in the states without
explains these rights by saying that the citizens are				sufficient water would be able to make water a
free to die with hunger or thirst, state would not				social and cultural asset instead of a commodity. It
interfere in their freedoms.				would also enable the states to prepare a fair
The common needs of the common lot are found in				system of distribution. The inclusion of water in basic
abundance in the nature. Air and water are its major				human would help to work on a universal and
examples.Nature has bestowed all the blessings on all				coherent body of regulations for all countries. It
the creatures, from a unicellular organism to human				would make clear that it is the task of the state to
being ,without any any distinction of genre or				give fresh, reasonably priced water to all of its
species.Many organizations of world level are				populace.
struggling to compel the UN to include the access to				It is high time for the UN also to include water in the
water in the list of basic human rights.				list of basic Human Rights.
The global water crisis needs a global resolution in