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3.
States shall respect, protect and ensure access to water, including in customary and
community-based water management systems, on a non-discriminatory basis, and shall take
measures to endeavour to guarantee affordable water for personal, domestic and
productive uses, and improved sanitation, in particular for persons belonging to
disadvantaged or marginalized groups, such as nomadic pastoralists, workers on
plantations, migrants, regardless of their legal status and as defined by national
legislation, and persons living in irregular or informal settlements.
Switzerland
3.
Les États respecteront, protégeront et garantiront l’accès à l’eau, y compris dans les
systèmes coutumiers et communautaires de gestion de l’eau, sur une base non
discriminatoire, et ils prendront des mesures pour garantir l’accès à un coût abordable à
l’eau à des fins personnelles, domestiques et productives, et à des installations
d’assainissement améliorées, notamment pour les groupes défavorisés ou marginalisés,
comme les éleveurs nomades, les travailleurs des plantations, les migrants sans
considération de leur statut juridique, et les personnes vivant dans des zones d’habitation
informelles ou illégales. Les États promouvront des technologies appropriées et à un
coût abordable, notamment des technologies d’irrigation, de réutilisation des eaux
usées traitées, et de collecte et de stockage de l’eau.
Chaudhry, expert
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.States shall respect, protect and ensure access to water, including in customary and
community-based water management systems, on a non-discriminatory basis, and shall take
measures to guarantee affordable water for personal, domestic and productive uses, and
improved sanitation, in particular for disadvantaged or marginalized groups, such as
nomadic pastoralists, workers on farms, forests, fisheries, and plantations, landless
persons, migrants, regardless of their legal status, and persons living in irregular or
informal settlements. Special measures should be taken to respect, protect, and fulfil
the rights to adequate water and sanitation for rural women and girls, including at
places of work and education
Paragraph 4
Switzerland
4.
States shall protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains,
forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes protect and ensure the regeneration of natural
water resources, watersheds, aquifers and surface water sources, including wetlands, ponds,
lakes, rivers and streams, from overuse and contamination by harmful substances, in
particular by industrial effluent and concentrated minerals and chemicals that result in slow
and fast poisoning.
Paragraph 5
EU
5.
States shall prevent third parties from impairing the enjoyment of the right to water
of peasants and other people persons living in rural areas. States shall prioritize water use
for human needs, small-scale food production, ecosystem needs and cultural use before
other uses.
Guatemala: reservation
5.
[Los Estados impedirán a terceros que menoscaben el disfrute del derecho al agua de
los campesinos y otras personas que viven en las zonas rurales. Darán prioridad al uso del
agua para atender a las necesidades humanas, para la producción de alimentos en pequeña
escala, para las necesidades de los ecosistemas y para usos culturales.]
Chaudhry, expert
5.
States shall prevent third parties from impairing the enjoyment of the right to water
of peasants and other people living in rural areas, including by diversion of water
resources/bodies and their commercial exploitation. States shall prioritize water use for
human needs, small-scale food production, ecosystem needs and cultural use before other
uses and respect customary rights to water resources, including coastal areas and
rivers.
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