I would like to commend you on such a detailed text, especially when it comes to linking the right to water to the right to food. However, I found the argument in page 70 para 3 lines30- 33 quite alrarming, and does not sufficiently emphasise that the right to water should not be compromised by market based mechanisms, in many cases this is what happens.
In my country, there is a poor allocation of water resources from the Nile especially during Summer, where small farm holders are only given very poor quality water for irrigation, and not regularly enough resulting in crop failures, and decline in the soil quality, making the winter crop even more challenged than the year before. Larger holdings, get better quality water during summer, since these holdings export their produce to Europe, and hence are a more important investment. Like everything else in Egypt, the water allocaion infrastructure needs renovation, and the water allocation for agriculture legislations need to be revised to fit our current reality, where the need exceeds the supply, with no guarantee that there will be enough left for future generations. For that I suggest a binding international treaty for prioritizing the right to water and the measures that guarantee that all individuals enjoy that right.
Tarek Soliman