The human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
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and the private sector, on adequate solutions to ensure sustainable and
non-discriminatory access to safe drinking water and sanitation;
(n) To enhance efforts to substantially reduce the share of untreated
wastewater released into the environment and to ensure that plans and programmes
for improving sanitation services take into account the need for appropriate sy stems
for the treatment of wastewater produced, including disposal of infant faeces, with
the aim of reducing the risks to human health, drinking water resources and the
environment;
(o) To identify patterns of failure to respect, protect or fulfil the hu man rights
to safe drinking water and sanitation for all persons without discrimination and to
address their structural causes in policymaking and budgeting within a broader
framework, while undertaking holistic planning aimed at achieving sustainable
universal access, including in instances where the private sector, donors and
non-governmental organizations are involved in service provision;
(p) To provide for effective accountability mechanisms for all water and
sanitation service providers, including private sector providers, to ensure that they
respect human rights and do not cause or contribute to human rights violations or
abuses;
6.
Calls upon States and international organizations to provide financial
resources and support capacity-building and technology transfer to help countries, at
their request, in particular developing countries, to provide safe, clean, accessible and
affordable drinking water and sanitation for all;
7.
Calls upon non-State actors, including business enterprises, both
transnational and others, to comply with their responsibility to respect human rights,
including the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, including by
cooperating with State investigations into allegations of abuses of the human rights
to safe drinking water and sanitation and by progressively engaging with States to
detect and remedy abuses of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation;
8.
Stresses the important role of the international cooperation and technical
assistance provided by States, specialized agencies of the United Nations system and
international and development partners, as well as by donor agencies, urges
development partners to adopt a human rights-based approach when designing and
implementing development programmes in support of national initiatives and plans
of action related to the rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, and invites
regional and international organizations to complement efforts by States to
progressively realize the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation in
accordance with their respective mandates;
9.
Calls upon Member States to expand international cooperation and
capacity-building support to developing countries in water- and sanitation-related
activities and programmes, including water harvesting, desalination, water efficiency,
wastewater treatment, recycling and reuse technologies;
10. Also calls upon Member States to enhance global partnerships for
sustainable development as a means to achieve and sustain the Goals and the targets
of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 16 and highlights that the 2030
Agenda marks a paradigm shift towards a more balanced and integrated plan of action
for achieving sustainable development that reflects the universality, indivisibility and
interdependence of all human rights;
11. Reaffirms that the high-level political forum on sustainable development,
under the auspices of the General Assembly and of the Economic and Social Council,
has the central role in overseeing follow-up and review at the global level of the
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