Fifteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

Human beings are deeply united by what differentiates us from each other. In the value of that difference and in the recognition of it is the principle of unity that allows us to universally extend the standards of quality of life that today only a few enjoy and with which many dream, because to talk about human rights means talking about quality of life and access to better conditions to design and realize our lives in society. With a strictly legal methodology, carrying out a multilevel normative analysis of human rights and emerging rights, the main objective of this study is to know the state of regulation, implementation, and legal linking of the right to water and sanitation, either independently or by connecting with other human rights, expressly recognized as such in current legal regulations, since it is the necessary precondition for the exercise of the rights of man and the vehicular element of the right to life, based on human dignity as a transversal value of this new generation of rights. In view of the results, there is only a non-binding soft law recognition, which advocates for the universal recognition of the right to water, which cannot be achieved without paying attention to both inequalities in access to water resources and sanitation and water quality, including other water values, such as the right to the river landscape, since water is intangible heritage of humanity.