A long-due story of mismanagement

This year marks the beginning of the International Water for Life Decade 2005-2015.  The United Nations, through the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and World Health Organization (WHO), have introduced ten critical years, which started on March 22, 2005, to focus global attention on what should be obvious: water for life and aims, not just to highlight the magnitude of the world’s water problem, but also to bring all “stakeholders” together to apply workable solutions. Clean water is asserted by the UNICEF’s Executive Director Carol Bellamy as “an inviolable right, not a privilege.” It is the basis of all life and is recognized as a humanitarian issue and a human right, the misallocation of which becomes a breach of legal norms.  According to UNICEF, two buckets – 20 liters – of safe water a day is the bare minimum a child needs to live.  This is enough for drinking and