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Scientists have long been searching for a unified field theory-one answer to all of the questions about the physical universe. In Just Add Water: Solving the World's Problems Using Its Most Precious Resource, I take a similar approach to social policy questions. What if we could find a unified social policy theory-the answer to every question, from how to prevent war to how to promote gender equality? Nearly all of our most serious global challenges are complex, multifaceted "wicked problems." But perhaps the first step in solving wicked problems as seemingly distinct as racism and disease epidemics is the same: reform our laws, policies, and priorities to achieve global water security.

In the ten years since the UN General Assembly recognized an international human right to water, that right has remained largely unenforceable in both international and domestic law and efforts to implement it have proven mostly ineffective or even counterproductive. The UN General Assembly's Declaration in 2010 could have catalyzed progress in achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals aimed at improving access to water and sanitation. Nevertheless, scholars, activists, and practitioners can reimagine the international human right to water as a civil and political right, rather than as a substantive guarantee of water, in ways that would make the implementation of the human right to water more sustainable, equitable, and enforceable. ; En los diez años transcurridos desde que la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas reconoció como derecho humano al agua, el mismo ha permanecido en gran parte inaplicable y los esfuerzos para implementarlo han resultado en su mayoría ineficaces o incluso contraproducentes. No obstante, académicos, activistas y profesionales pueden volver a imaginar el derecho humano internacional al agua como un derecho civil y político, en lugar de una garantía sustantiva al agua, de manera que la implementación del derecho humano al agua sea más sostenible, equitativo y ejecutable.