At present no binding human rights instrument referring to an explicit right to water exists within the Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) human rights legal framework. There are, however, implicit references to such a right within a number of SADC policy documents, and three Constitutions of SADC member states (South Africa, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo) explicitly contain a right to water. In order to provide the peoples of SADC a legal basis upon which to enforce these implicit and explicit human rights, a SADC human right to water must be constitutionalised within a binding human rights instrument. In giving content to this proposed constitutionalised human right to water the ‘reading in’ approach found in General Comment 15 of the Committee on International Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as interpreted by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights will be applied to specific SADC water policy documents. In this manner, references to aspects related to the right to water – most notably water quality and water quantity will be identified and discussed. These references will be interpreted and will be applied to inform the content of the proposed constitutionalised SADC human right to water.

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将南部非洲发展共同体的水人权宪法化

目前，在南部非洲发展共同体 (SADC) 的人权法律框架内，没有提及明确的水权的具有约束力的人权文书。然而，南共体的一些政策文件中隐含地提到了这种权利，南共体成员国的三部宪法（南非、津巴布韦和刚果民主共和国）明确包含水权。为了向南共体人民提供执行这些隐含和明确的人权的法律基础，必须在具有约束力的人权文书中将南共体的用水权纳入宪法。在为这一提议的宪法化人权供水内容提供内容时，国际经济委员会第 15 号一般性评论中的“阅读”方法，非洲人权和人民权利委员会解释的社会和文化权利将适用于特定的南共体水政策文件。通过这种方式，将确定和讨论与水权相关的方面——尤其是水质和水量。这些参考资料将被解释并用于告知拟议的宪法化的南部非洲发展共同体水权的内容。