Working Paper 'The Right to Sanitation'
WECF promotes safe water and sanitation for all
13.06.2008
everyone has access to safe and affordable drinking water and sustainable
sanitation. Adequate sanitation is considered indispensable for leading a life in human dignity, for ensuring cost-effective health systems, for promoting economic
growth in developing countries and ensuring education for all – for both girls and boys. Therefore, sanitation should be treated as a human right. However, experience shows that pollution from sanitation can jeopardize the right to water.
