Nowadays, about one billion of the entire population is still facing water scarcity and limited access to a clean source of water. Insufficient access to quality drinking water causes many people to die, especially children, as a result of waterborne diseases. Water is the need for every individual, because it is essential to life, and therefore a human right. However, the right to drinking water was not clearly stated in the first international human rights instruments. It was not until 2010 that the United Nations recognized the right to water as a fundamental human right. Slovenia joined this in 2016, when it enshrined in its Constitution the inalienable right to drinking water, thus officially confirming the existence of this human right. The aim of my diploma thesis was to determine, in addition to defining the concept of human rights and the right to drinking water, the degree of necessity and consequences of its identification and registering the right to drinking water in the Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia. Through various research methods, I have found that the enrollment of this right in the Constitution has also a symbolic meaning, among other benefits, since it highlights the notion of water as a natural asset that is vital and strategic to human.
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