A/HRC/25/27 33. The human right to water entitles everyone to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic uses.18 The Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation has also set out a post-2015 agenda with targets that include everyone having water, sanitation and hygiene at home.19 In order for States to be able to realize this human right, they should allocate funding for the effective dissemination and sanitization of water through their respective geographical jurisdictions, and ensure that effective monitoring of services takes place. 34. The right to health embraces a wide range of socioeconomic factors that promote a healthy life. It extends to food and nutrition, housing, access to safe and potable water and adequate sanitation, safe and healthy working conditions as well as a healthy environment.20 The availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality of health-related services should be facilitated and controlled by States. This duty extends to a variety of health-related services ranging from controlling the spread of infectious diseases to ensuring maternal health and adequate facilities for children. On the issue of health systems and financing, the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health has stated that States should ensure adequate, equitable and sustainable financing for health.21 35. The right to education is both a human right in itself and an indispensable means of realizing other human rights.22 Whether education is provided publically or privately, States should adopt a human rights approach to ensure that it is of an adequate standard and does not exclude any child on the basis of race, religion, geographical location or any other defining characteristic. 36. The Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context, has stated that, in addition to legislative measures, administrative, judicial, economic, social and educational steps must also be taken to ensure adequate housing provision.23 37. Distribution of food across all geographical areas needs to be monitored by States, as well as ensuring that water and sanitation facilities reach everyone and are maintained at a healthy standard. In addition, States need to consider carefully whether the privatization of certain basic services such as water and food would impede access by remote groups of people or those living in extreme poverty. The Special Rapporteur on the right to food has stressed that States must facilitate economic access to adequate food.24 The rights and needs of all communities should be met; even people living in remote geographical locations should, for example, be guaranteed the provision of education and potable water. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 10 Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, general comment No. 15 (2012) on the right to water, para. 2. Available from www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Water/eliminatingsheetPost2015.pdf. See also the report of the Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation (A/67/270). Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, general comment No. 14 (2000) on the right to the highest attainable standard of health, para. 4. See the interim report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health (A/67/302). Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, general comment No. 13 (1999) on the right to education, para. 1. See www.ohchr.org/en/issues/housing/pages/housingindex.aspx. Interim report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food (A/63/278), para. 9.