At its last session, the UN Human Rights Council affirmed that the right to water and sanitation is legally binding: “The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation is derived from the right to an adequate standard of living and inextricably related to the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, as well as the right to life and human dignity”. The Council’s resolution (A/HRC/15/L.14) is available here: http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/15/L.14 The Council stated that several international human rights instruments, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), the UN Convention on the Rights…