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MUNOZ AUNION, Antonio. The international right to drinking water and sanitation: A debate on rights of fourth generation at the crossroads. Rev. IUS [online]. 2013, vol.7, n.32, pp.176-190. ISSN 1870-2147.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the United Nations General Assembly echoed the lack of water in the planet and included the subject among the Millennium Goals. Since then, there is a latent conflict between private interests who enjoy a renewed hierarchy following the Globalization process, and the sovereign positions who maintain the public origin of the resource and the impossibility of its commercialisation. This position has been also endorsed by native peoples. The following lines show these divergent interests and the need to find contact points for a sustainable development.

Palavras-chave : Commercialization of common goods; political governance; political confrontation; Millennium Goals; lack of transparency.