Report: Right To Water

This report was written by Fundación Agua Sin Fronteras, Fundación Aguaclara, Coalición Clima 21, Mesas Técnicas de Agua de la Red de Organizaciones de Baruta del estado Miranda and Fuerza Ecológica de Calabozo (FECOLCA). Civilis Human Rights provided support in the construction and development of the methodology of the working groups within the framework of its mandate to strengthen civil society in the field of human rights. Photo by Iván Ocando.

Venezuela is immersed in a Complex Humanitarian Emergency that impedes, among other rights, access to drinking water and sanitation1. The country has more natural fresh surface water resources than necessary to supply all its population of close to 32 million people2 3. However, the dismantling of the entire institutional and physical structure of the sector has compromised the quality of the sources of supply, the treatment and purification of water, distribution, sanitation and health, hydroelectric production, even the very reduced industrial and food production the country has today: in short, it is endangering the lives of Venezuelans in all areas.

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