Right2Water
Right2Water is a campaign to commit the European Union and Member States to implement the human right to water and sanitation.[1]
It has three stated goals:
- Guaranteed water and sanitation for all in Europe.
- No liberalisation of water services.
- Universal (Global) access to water and sanitation.
The European Citizens' Initiative] (ECI) represented more than 120 NGO and was supported by the German and Austrian trade unions.[2] On the 21 March 2013, it became the first European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) to collect more than a million signatures and they reached the minimum quota of signatures in seven countries on the 7 May 2013. It stopped the signature collection on the 7 September 2013, with a total of 1,857,605 signatures. The initiative was submitted to the European Commission in December 2013 and the public hearing took place on the 17 February 2014 at the European Parliament.[3] In March 2014, the Commission has adopted the Communication in response to the Right2Water initiative.[4] On the 1 July 2015 the Roadmap for the evaluation of the Drinking Water Directive has been published by the European Commission.[5]
In response, the European Parliament criticised the Commission for failing the meet the initiative's demands.[6] The report by Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan called on the Commission "to recognise that affordable access to water is a basic human right."[7]
In 2010, three years before the petition, Paris was the first European local entity to have concluded the remunicipalization process of water and sanitation, entrusted to Eau de Paris.[8]
See also
References
- ^ "About our Campaign | Water campaign". www.right2water.eu. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
- ^ "Water rights e-petition first to get 1 million signatures". EURACTIV. 11 February 2013. Archived from the original on 25 October 2017.
- ^ http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20140204STO34708/html/Right-to-water-attend
- ^ Communication from the Commission on the European Citizens' Initiative "Water and sanitation are a human right! Water is a public good, not a commodity!" http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/rep/1/2014/EN/1-2014-177-EN-F1-1.Pdf
- ^ http://ec.europa.eu/smart-regulation/roadmaps/docs/2015_env_041_drinking_water_en.pdf
- ^ "Right2water citizens' initiative: Commission must act, say MEPs | News | European Parliament". News | European Parliament. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
- ^ "Right2water citizens' initiative: Commission must act, say MEPs | News | European Parliament". News | European Parliament. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
- ^ "The Remunicipalisation of Water Services in Paris, France". Archived from the original on 26 March 2013.
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