Human Right to Water and Sanitation in Rural and Indigenous Territories of Mexico. Challenges

Abstract

In this paper, a brief review of the literature is unfolded to account for the complications that make it impossible to adequately guarantee the human right to water and sanitation for rural and indigenous communities, for which the background is taken up from international legislation and its adoption in the Mexican constitution; Subsequently, it is related to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which the Mexican State has undertaken to guarantee, among the main problems are: the coverage of the supply service as the guarantee of the right; the lack of adequate regulations for its implementation at the various administrative levels; the need to distinguish between water supply and sanitation as two separate and important rights; the lack of participatory democracy; human rights and conflicts over water.