14 Amendments of Ignazio CORRAO related to 2014/2239(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas at least 600 million people do not have sustainablemore than a billion people in the developing world lack access to safe drinking water, and a third of the world population lacks basic sanitation necessary to reduce exposure to water-related diseases; whereas, as a result, diseases spread, causing suffering and death and posing major impediments to development; whereas about 2 000 children under five years old die daily from diarrhoea is the second largest cause of death among children under five, and a majority of these deaths are linked to inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene; whereas there is, however, a clear downward trend in these numbers; Whereas the lack of access to potable water kills more children than AIDS, malaria and smallpox combined;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas every year, 3 and a half million people die of water-borne illness;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas human beings are essentially water. Around two thirds of our organism is comprised of water. Some 75 percent of our brain is made up of water, and water is the principal vehicle for the electrochemical transmissions of our body;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas our blood flows like a network of rivers in our body. Blood helps transport nutrients and energy to our organism; whereas water also carries from our cells waste products for excretion; whereas Water helps to regulate the temperature of our body; whereas the loss of 20% of body water can cause death; whereas it is possible to survive for various weeks without food, but it is not possible to survive more than a few days without water; whereas water is life;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas the human right to water has continued to fail to be fully recognised, despite clear references in various international legal instruments and international agreements identifying a range of human rights such as: the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; whereas among the rights protected by these various declarations and covenants are the rights to life, to the enjoyment of a standard of living adequate for health and well-being, to protection from disease, and to adequate food; whereas the covenants and international agreements contain evidence supporting the conclusion that the drafters considered water to be both a fundamental right and a ‘derivative’ right – part of the other rights discussed more explicitly;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that access to a basic water requirement should be a non- debatable fundamental human right implicitly and explicitly supported by international law, declarations and State practice;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on Governments, international aid agencies, nongovernmental organizations and local communities to work for providing all humans with a basic water requirement and to guarantee that water is a human right;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Urges for ‘human right to water’ to be included in the list of universal fundamental human rights including the right to sufficient water, at appropriate quality, to satisfy the explicit right to life and the broader rights to health and well- being;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Stresses that in developing countries, where water is even more a limited resource the prior use of water should be to fulfil the need to the local population and in local agriculture and not in the industrial use of water; reminds that use of water should respect of the ecosystems;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Points out that acknowledging a human right to water would encourage the international community and individual governments to renew their efforts to meet basic water needs of their populations; this recognition would make it more likely for states and governments to translate the human right to water into specific national and international legal obligations and responsibilities;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Stresses that acknowledging a human right to water maintains a spotlight of attention on the deplorable state of water management in many parts of the world including some EU countries and the developing countries;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 g (new)
Paragraph 1 g (new)
1g. Reminds that by acknowledging a human right to water and expressing the willingness to meet this right for those currently deprived of it, the water community would have a useful tool for addressing one of the most fundamental failures of 20th century development;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Recognises the human right to water and sanitation at a time when illness caused by lack of drinking water and sanitation causes more deaths than war does; Furthermore to guarantee the right to water in developing countries signifies saving aid resources in other areas such as medicines and health issues in general;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Reminds that ensuring sustainable management of groundwater is indispensable to poverty reduction and shared prosperity. It accounts for more than a third of municipal and industrial supply and some 40 percent of the global irrigated area is serviced by groundwater. Groundwater has the potential to provide an improved source of drinking water for millions of urban and rural poor people. Many poor farmers and their families depend on it to irrigate their crops and sustain their livelihoods;