Got clean water? For 2.5 billion people, the access to water sanitation is a foreign concept. This disgraceful, inhumane fact has claimed the lives of 3.575 million deaths due to water-related diseases: more lives than any war has ever stolen. Poor people living in the slums often pay 5-10 times more per liter of water than wealthy people living in the same city (water.org). 

     Since 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has protected the inalienable rights of the citizens of the world. It is now the most translated document in the world and the sole inspiration for Amnesty International and activists groups everywhere. However, what the document has failed to deliver is the explicit, undeniable right to clean and accessible water.