POSITIONS

• Water is a vector of sustainable development, human development and social organisation.
• The Right to Water is unanimously recognised but the free of cost service does not exist, the potable water comes at a price.
• The right to water cannot be dissociated from the right to sanitation.
• Distinction must be made between rural and urban in the problems of access to water.
• The determination of political players conditions the success of the MDGs.
• The right to water should be used as a support for reaching the MDGs.
• A judicial authority responsible at international level is desirable but we are aware of the stakes involved in the legal structure of industrialised countries.
• The right to water and sanitation depends mostly on the determination of the national executive branch.
• The dilution of skills and levels of responsibility obstructs the success of the MDGs.

ACTIONS

• The term Right to Water always signifies the right to water and the sanitation
• Obtain a common definition of the right to water and sanitation, including
  • The ethical values
  • The determination of a solvable and responsible provider of this right.
  • Social and solidarity stakes.
  • The ranking to usages.
• Create or determine a suitable international judicial structure, for centralising the water and sanitation policies.
• Debate a draft law, difficult to apply but of supra-national value.
• Make the Governments responsible for applying sustainable policies on access to water and sanitation.
• Start from local experiences and realities for establishing a global right to water.
• Create system for evaluating the performance of water and sanitation services in order to verify the efficacy of actions conducted.