Water: Human Right or Human Need?

The seven day focus on the world's water crisis ended Sunday with a pledge by more than 100 countries to strive for clean water and sanitation for billions in need and fight drought and flood.
While the Forum was met with over 25,000 people, the largest turn-out ever, it was also met with accusations of turning into a dismissed "trade-show."
The major debate being: Is water a basic human need or a basic human right? Brazil, Egypt and the United States agree to it as a need while numerous countries, led by Latin America, are already writing water in as a constitutional right.
Non-binding agreements were met including greater cooperation to ease disputes over water, measures to address floods and water scarcity, better management of resources and curbing pollution of rivers, lakes and aquifers.
One thing everyone agreed upon: as the population grows so to does the demand for the access to clean freshwater. The world's current population of 6.5 billion people is expected to grow to 9 billion by the year 2050 with the number of people living under severe water stress climbs to 4 billion. Water World