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Murky Future for Rights Treaty on Water

"If someone thinks that a global convention on water as a human right will solve the world's drinking water problem, I have to say that person is living in cloud cuckooland," Professor Asit K. Biswas, president of the Mexico-based Third World Centre for Water Management, told IPS.

He pointed out that food has been declared a human right for decades, yet hundreds of millions of people are still hungry.