A/HRC/42/CRP.1 806. The right to water is considered as covered by Article 11 of the ICESCR, as it is essential for securing an adequate standard of living.1303 According to the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, the human right to water “entitles everyone to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic uses.”1304 An adequate amount of safe water is necessary to prevent death from dehydration, to reduce the risk of water-related disease and to provide for consumption, cooking, personal and domestic hygienic requirements. 1305 807. Following a similar reasoning as for the right to food, the Group of Experts has reasonable grounds to believe that the right to water has likewise been violated by the parties to the conflict. This is particularly true in relation to measures that led to the destruction of or damage to water facilities, and others that limit access to clean water for drinking and irrigation, including those limiting access to the necessary fuel for water pumps. As shown by the cholera outbreak, which is said to be linked to the lack of access to clean water for drinking and irrigation, the right to water and the right to food are closely connected to the right to health. The right to health 808. The right to health is closely linked to both the right to food and the right to water, as well as economic rights, e.g. the right to work. For an individual to be able to realize the right to health, one would need sufficient nourishment (right to food), hydration (right to water), and sufficient income (economic rights) to afford that food, water, and a basic level of healthcare. While interconnected to the other human rights examined above, Article 12 of the ICESCR explicitly sets out a distinctive right to health and defines steps that states should take to achieve progressively, to the maximum available resources, the highest attainable standard of health, including maternal and child health; environmental hygiene; the prevention, treatment and control of disease; and medical service and attention for all. 809. The Group of Experts has reasonable grounds to believe that both the Government of Yemen and the de facto authorities have violated the right to health in failing to ensure basic services, as well as the implementation of disease control programmes, leaving the population vulnerable to preventable diseases. The non-payment of the salaries of health workers in the areas under the control of the de facto authorities is also likely to affect the fulfilment of the right to health. Finally, the right to health has further been violated by all parties to the conflict during military operations, i.e. through the destruction of or damage to health care facilities and their use for military purposes. A looming environmental disaster: The Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) Oil Tanker – Ras Isa 810. The Emergency Relief Coordinator has issued repeated warnings about the risk of “an environmental disaster” posed by the FSO Safer oil tanker, which is a floating storage and offloading facility eight kilometres off the coast of the Ras Isa terminal in the Red Sea. The facility, containing 1.1 million barrels of oil, has had no maintenance since 2015. According to experts, a spill from the FSO Safer would involve more than four times the amount of oil released in the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.1306 Since September 2018, the United Nations had sought to conduct an assessment of the tanker. 811. Despite the potential for environmental disaster, no agreement has been reached on how to deal with the FSO Safer oil tanker. The main problem seems to hinge on what to do with the oil, with the Houthis suggesting that it has to be sold in international markets 1307 and the coalition blaming the Houthis for refusing to allow the offloading of the oil.1308 1303 General Comment No. 15 (2003) on the right to water para. 3. General Comment No. 15 at para. 2. 1305 General Comment No. 15 at para. 2. 1306 http://sanaacenter.org/publications/the-yemen-review/7504#An-Environmental-ApocalypseLooming-on-the-Red-Sea. 1307 https://twitter.com/Moh_Alhouthi/status/1120092336208404482 1308 https://www.almushahid.net/?p=43175. 1304 194