Is Access to Clean Water a Basic Human Right?

Life is sacred: Access to clean water is a basic human right

In response to this debate question, the answer is yes. 

To those who advocate that life is sacred, access to clean water is a human right, because clean water is necessary to sustain human life. Each one who sees life as sacred will try to do whatever lies within his or her power, to make certain that every person on the globe has access to clean water. 

Those who do not hold life as sacred may attempt to negate this stand and deny them access to clean water, even if they insist upon their basic human right to clean water.

The difficulty inherent in this question lies in the possibility versus the impossibility of the enforcement of this human right. 

Is it reasonable, feasible or logical to suggest that it is possible to provide access to clean water to everyone, around the globe?

Many will turn this into a way to make money. When money becomes the criterion, those who cannot pay for access to clean water may be denied. Resolution lies in the love of God and one another, versus the love of money.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations (1948), lists internationally recognized, human rights essential for human survival. Access to clean water is essential to human survival.

Is this a question of an international moral conscience with appropriate law enforcement?

Is it reduced to a national level? Is this placed on a community, family, couple or individual plane for 

resolution?

Who ultimately bears the responsibility? We all do, whether or not we accept the responsibility. 

Who writes the rules and enforces them? We do.

Will it only find resolution in a world crisis? Who knows?

What about the basic human rights of access to clean water for those who are taking up residence in space stations, even if only for a time? Being human, suggests that we all have inherent human rights, including those people who are venturing into outer space for whatever reason.

As human beings, we have the responsibility and the obligation to maintain human rights to the best of our ability, both for ourselves and others. Where others take precedence over ourselves, there is divine and human love manifested.

To give includes taking from ourselves, in order to give to others. The bottom line is always going to be the need for the full human manifestation of the love of God and one another.