Water and sanitation are ...

Water and sanitation are essential for life, for health, for dignity, empowerment and prosperity. A human rights framework encompasses a broad spectrum from the rights based approach on the one side to the legal right to water at the other.  The rights based approach promotes participation in and information about people’s access to decision making forums that affect their access to water, sanitation and hygiene services.  The legal approach promotes national and international justifiable approaches that promote accountability and transparency and provide mechanisms to progressively realise increasing peoples access to water and sanitation.