UNESCO-IHE's Rector, Professor Szöllösi-Nagy talks about the breakthrough of UN's legal recognition of water and sanitation as a human right, and the process it took to get there.
"The right to water and sanitation is a very important issue, particularly in the light of the fact that 80% of diseases are water-borne or water-related. 50% of the hospital beds all over the world are occupied by patients who are there because of water or sanitation, or rather the lack of appropriate sanitation."
For more information regarding the issue of water as a human right, refer to the website links below.
Date published: 10 December 2010
