2010 CE
UN recognition of rights to water and sanitation
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In 2010 the UN General Assembly recognised the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation. Recognition offers a normative and accountability framework, but does not automatically distribute networks, finance, or protection from contamination and shutoffs.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
Reading the date: point event.
Sources
- documents.un.org (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2010-08-03
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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