UN report: The global water crisis requires fair and sustainable management

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New York on September 21 / WAM / A new report issued by the United Nations called for a review of the nature of the global water crisis that deprives millions of people of the right to safe drinking water.

The recent report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Right to Human Water and its right to sanitation services, Pedro Arojo Agodo, stressed the importance of adopting effective international water strategies to treat clean water shortages, especially among poor and marginalized groups, calling for the adoption of a human rights approach in dealing with this crisis.

The special course stressed the need not to deal with the current water crisis as merely a scarcity of scarcity that can be resolved by relying on technological solutions alone, explaining that billions of people are not merely people who reduce their position in that they lack the ways to reach water in their neighborhoods, but rather they are poor and marginalized individuals residing near rivers or over polluted groundwater layers.

The report recommended to give priority to two main challenges in order to achieve two goals, the first to live in peace with rivers and groundwater layers on which billions of people depend, by restoring advanced natural engineering that organizes the natural course of water depending on the energy that the sun provides for societies for free, and secondly work to enhance the democratic management of water affairs, which is understood as a public benefit available to everyone but no one can seize it, and therefore it is not Basic commodity.
The report called for adopting ethical principles to determine the priorities of water use, so that the maximum priority for water for life, followed by the uses that serve the public good, then economic uses with a focus on what goes beyond meeting the basic needs.

He stressed the need to recognize the fresh water resources available in every society or region as a general benefit, and the need to look at the aquatic ecosystems as a common natural heritage that must be managed in a sustainable manner, including the establishment of a participatory water management, which includes the coordinated administration in the cross -border basins, according to the United Nations Convention for the Protection and Use of the cross -border waterways and international lakes.
He pointed to the necessity of ensuring effective and democratic management of water, by promoting the public property of water resources and aquatic ecosystems, and within a framework of full respect for existing management models used by the original peoples, rural societies and even urban areas, which requires the implementation of a participatory, transparent and subject to accountability based on an unconthemous approach in which women participate equally with men, especially when managing common resources.

The report recommended the governments to preserve the best water sources in terms of quality, reliability and cost to supply the population, and also to work on giving priority in the general budgets of the human right to safe drinking water and his right to sanitation services.
He pointed to the necessity of developing the principles of efficiency, responsibility and fairness in an integrative way instead of adopting a market -based approach, implementing and developing a set of tools, strategies, measures and public policies that are compatible with the Department of Water Affairs as a public benefit, and deals with it from the human rights perspective.

The report stressed the development of adaptation strategies based on the transition in the field of water, as is the case in mitigation strategies that are guided in the transition in the energy field.

He called on the international community to work to develop and implement hydrological plans at the level of ponds, and to conduct regional and urban planning based on the preventive principle, with the aim of enhancing the ability of aquatic ecosystems to resist, and enhance the ability of the population to resist, while paying special attention to those who live in severe poverty and weak.
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