El mínimo vital gratuito como una garantía del derecho fundamental al agua potable

Abstract

The access to drinking water by right has not yet been consecrated either in the Colombian political constitution or ín those of most Latin-American countries as a fundamental right. Nevertheless, there are normative mandates of constitutional character that give to this right the judicial, political and social support for its positivization. Presently, the right to drinking water access has been jurisdictionally recognized through a constitutional interpretation seeking to establish the primacy of the principies, the values, the constitutional goals and the mandates consigned in the international instruments. A significant step forward in the recognition of access to water as a right has been set by the Municipality of Medellín with the auspicious minimum vital drinking water program, which has beco me a good forecast for the referendum to be approved and thus consecrate the fundamental right to drinking water.