Water - International Law / Do you have a right to water?

FinnIt is one of your most basic needs, but do you have a right to water?

This episode will show how the law protect something we all need.

Two billion people worldwide don't have access to safe water... how the UN wants to change that by 2030.

And... can you use the law to make sure your community is kept supplied with water?

We all need water. So, you'd expect it to be on any list of our basic rights. So, this might surprise you:

1948 and one of the most important documents in human history is unveiled.

Declaration of Human Rights outlines what we are all entitled to things like life, freedom from slavery, freedom to marry.

But, oddly, not free access to water.

It's thought access to water was not included because the authors thought it was too obvious.

However, that was dealt with in 2010, on 28th July of that year, the United Nations General Assembly declared safe and clean drinking water and sanitation a human right.