Water - A Fundamental Personal Right or a Basic Economic Good?

     Clean drinking water is essential in order to live. Everyone is entitled to drink water, to use it i order to bathe or clean clothes or dishes. However because it is such a necessity, over the next couple of decades, the need for more water will increase greatly. Though everyone should be entitled to clean drinkable water, it is increasingly used as an economic good. Drinking water, which we should be entitled too, is bottled and packaged and sold to consumers all over the world.

     Sadly, underdevelopped countries are lacking in "filtered" water. Is it our duty as human beings to provide them with our resources? Or is it up to them to fend for themselves? There are other options, such as building wells for communties to thrive off of. To provide them with the technology and knowledge they need in order to retrieve safe water, but they are costly and time consuming.

     So, is water not a fundamental personal right? Something each indvidual should forever be entitled too? Or is it a money making gimick? A economic good bought and sold to consumers, without any other options?