The protection of water in international environmental law as a common good of the humanities of the present and the future

Abstract

This article addresses the challenge faced by humanity to reconcile the finitude of this common good called water with the growing demand; the concept of water footprint is brought up for debate; it reflects on the need to think about an ethics of water use and conservation. It uses the deductive method, with a qualitative approach; as for the nature, the research is applied, with respect to the procedure, the research is bibliographical and documentary, with a review of scientific works and articles by foreign national authors, and also a review of national legislative texts and international treaties. The duty to conserve water is a fundamental duty, based on the principle of solidarity. In domestic law, the notion of property was relativized by the social function within the scope of International Environmental Law, likewise, the concept of sovereignty should meet the social and global community functions, to ensure sustainability and distributive justice of natural resources between generations and interspecies.