El derecho al agua

Abstract

On 10 december of the year 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations, by resolution 217 A (III),
adopted the Universal Declaration of human rights, incorporating all the basic rights of the human being,
except -oddly- of the right to drinking water. It was necessary to wait for more than 60 years, for on 28 july
of the year 2010, through the resolution 64/292, the General Assembly of the United Nations explicitly
recognize the human right to water and sanitation. We also heard in recent years -particularly in chance of
electoral events- political speeches that elegant expressions reaffirming the right to water, although without
providing even a proposed "quick" how to guarantee such right, and much less of the legal tools for your
protection. In the present work, referred to the risk of hydric diseases; to the historical references to human
rights, and in particular of the right to water and sanitation in the province of Santa Fe; and the historical
absence of a policy in this regard; water for human consumption as the main objective of the proposed water
policy; the guarantees of the right to water, and a basic proposal of legal system for such guarantees.