International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Prakash Marpady ¹, Mohan S. Singhe ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Social Work, Mangalore University, Mangalagangothri, Mangalore, Karnataka, IN

Abstract

The human right to water entitles everyone to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic uses. However, about 1.1 billion people worldwide do not have access to safe and sufficient water to drink, to cook with or for personal hygiene. Combined with the lack of adequate sanitation this causes the death of about 2 million people every year, most of them children. Many more suffer daily from the lack of water, from water related diseases and from the loss of income and education that goes hand in hand with the resulting health problems and the laborious collection of water. The situation no more worth in India, In spite of huge water and sanitation scheme still majority of rural and urban people aren't been accessed to safe drinking water in terms of quality and quantity for their personal an domestic uses. Because of Indian constitution right and influence of international declaration on human right water has been consider as an issue of human right and at present people have been executed the right based approach to accumulate the safe drinking water. Mean while Indian courts from supreme to bottom are also redefined the article 21^st of constitution towards converge the right to safe drinking water into fundamental Rights. This paper deals with current scenario of drinking water in India and world at large, human right approach to safe drinking water and constitutional safe guard towards get the safe drinking water as well how better we can improve the safe drinking water through human right approach.

Keywords

Human Right, Constitution, Fundamental Rights, Sanitation

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