A letter with factual commitments and requests on water to be sent to all the Heads of State and Government of the world, all the Presidents of the national Parliaments, the European Parliament, the Pan-African Parliament, the Parlatino (Latin America) and the members of the UN Security Council: it was approved last night in Brussels at the end of the World Assembly of the Citizens and Elected Members for Water (opened on 18th March), with 650 participants working in movements in defence of water in Africa, Latin America, North America, Asia and Europe. The letter is to be published tomorrow, the World Water Day, on three Italian daily papers, including Avvenire. “We believe there is no inevitability in the current water crisis in the world and in the fact 1.5 billion people have no access to drinkable water and 2.6 billion people do not benefit from any sanitary service", reads the letter. Priority commitments include "to have access to water recognised as a universal human right", "to oppose to the decisions of the governments under which water services are to be negotiated for deregulation under the World Trade Organisation", "to establish a World Water Agency within the United Nations".
