A/HRC/42/47/Add.1 they pay 2 maloti to use toilets in commercial centres and for water they rely on nearby public taps or make special arrangements with government facilities for a supply of water. If these options are not available, the vendors bring water from home to sustain them through the day. 52. When the Special Rapporteur asked other residents about the situation of water and toilets from the perspective of the street vendors, they said that it was a question that had never occurred to them. The reactions of the people he spoke to are perhaps not surprising as many people do not put themselves in the shoes of those whose workplace is the streets. The human rights to water and sanitation require that services must be physically accessible for everyone within or in the immediate vicinity of all spheres of their lives, particularly at home, but also in other spaces (see A/HRC/42/47). Governments are required to intervene in those spaces in order to ensure the provision of water and toilets as needed. 3. Correctional services 53. As the result of reforms in 2004, the water and sanitation facilities in some correctional services have been refurbished with a large leap from the bucket toilet to stainless steel toilet seats and individual water faucets in cells. The Special Rapporteur visited a correctional service and was positively surprised at the facilities in both the single and communal cells. The female correctional service that he visited had not yet been refurbished but there were plans for renovation, which he hopes will take place soon. The Special Rapporteur hopes that the situation in the correctional services of other districts matches the level of the correctional services he visited. 4. Maintenance of sanitation solutions 54. The ventilated improved pit latrines, widely disseminated in Lesotho, were built mainly in two phases in 1998 and 2000. They are therefore now about 20 years old and several villagers explained to the Special Rapporteur that they had never been emptied or maintained by the Government. During all his interactions with people, nobody mentioned that they had emptied the pit latrines. In one rural village, the Special Rapporteur saw a latrine which was full and leaking excreta. The owner explained that she had had to patch it with concrete so that it did not overflow and eventually that she had had to build an additional latrine, standing next to the initial one, which had also reached capacity. 55. The geography of Lesotho adds another layer of challenge when it comes to sanitation. The mountainous areas that are hard to reach do not allow for vehicles to access households to empty the pit latrines. Even when households are accessible by vehicles, some residents are not able to pay for removal services. Given these challenges, in some districts such as Mokhotlong, the advice given to its inhabitants was to use chemicals, with doubtful effectiveness for the decomposition of the excreta. 56. The construction of toilets should not remain the final goal and for the Basotho to fully enjoy the right to sanitation, the sustainability of the solution must be ensured. In particular, maintenance after construction, namely emptying pit latrines and providing environmentally adequate disposal of the sludge must be part of the solution. 5. Water infrastructure in rural areas 57. Many rural villages that the Special Rapporteur visited relied on public standpipes that were constructed by the Department of Rural Water Supply; however, in some places, villagers no longer used the community taps located close to their homes owing to vandalism, a lack of maintenance and the lack of water in the standpipes. The water supply to villages seldom benefited from maintenance by public authorities. The Special Rapporteur observed that the construction of water systems was the target and once a water system was built, attention turned to the next community. He saw several water sources that had dried up and pipelines that had been vandalized, leaving communities on their own to repair those facilities or find alternative ways to access a water supply. 12