Journalist and Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium): "L'eau tombe du ciel, et c'est heureux car sans elle la vie n'existerait pas. On peut y voir un cadeau de Dieu, si on y croit, ou un don de la nature. Mais certainement pas un bien privé ni une arme stratégique. L'eau, comme l'air, n'appartient à personne et est indispensable à tous. Nul ne peut se l'approprier pour quelque but que ce soit."

Professor at Zaragoza University, Spain: "Deberíamos introducir el derecho humano al agua potable y al saneamiento básico en nuestras constituciones y leyes fundamentales, como han hecho ya varios países latinoamericanos. La UE debería hacer lo propio, reformando la Directiva Marco de Aguas; y no sólo por lo que significaría de cara a los propios países de la Unión, sino también por el eco que tendría a nivel mundial y las implicaciones que deberían derivarse en lo referente a nuestra responsabilidades globales."

Executive Director of Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF), Netherlands: “We might want to make remark how important this human right to water and sanitation is especially for women, especially in developing countries and countries in transition, that it is often a question of life, death, illness and violence against women, and that we are VERY concerned that its some of the rich countries in the north, were sanitation is not a question of death, illness and violence, which are trying to turn back this new human right, which was agreed in 2010 by the UN general assembly”

Stv. Vorsitzender des Rechnungsprüfungsausschusses: "Dass es einer UN-Resolution bedurfte, um festzustellen, dass Wasser ein Menschenrecht ist, macht nachdenklich. Es macht aber auch deutlich, dass es Organisationen wie die Europäische Bürgerinitiative „Wasser ist ein Menschenrecht“ braucht, um darauf aufmerksam zu machen, welche Risiken eine Privatisierung der Wasserversorgung mit sich bringen könnte. Ich unterstütze deshalb right2water und hoffe, dass die Bürgerinnen und Bürger die Bedeutung dieses Themas erkennen und daran mitwirken, dass die Unterschriftenanzahl die derzeit angepeilten zwei Millionen bis Ende 2013 weit übersteigen wird."

Member of the Socialist Party, Netherlands

General Secretary FSC.CCOO Trade Union (Spain): "El agua es el recurso mayor en el planeta y el peor repartido. Mil cien millones de personas no acceden a ella".

Famous Czech actor: "I traveled a lot and I had the opportunity to see and experience how important it is, that each person in the world has the right to drink clean water! Having a functional sanitary helps to reduce the spread of infectious diseases to a minimum"

Sénateur Nord Pas-de-Calais : "Une maitrise publique des sources d’énergie et de celle de l’eau est la seule garantie pour que chaque être humain en France et dans le monde puisse avoir librement accès à ces ressources vitales, bien commun de tous"

Emeritus Professor at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands: "Quality public water services are an indispensable part of modern society. They require high skills and knowledge and a balanced consideration of the interests of consumers, governments, workers and the environment!"

Swimmer in the Estonian Olympic team: "Water is health and I need that to training"

Mayor of Naples (Italy): "Diviene progressivamente centrale un'efficace gestione dei beni comuni, intesi quali acqua e servizi pubblici, attraverso forme di accesso e di gestione condivise, con la partecipazione dei cittadini. Stiamo lavorando a un testo costituzionale europeo più attento ai diritti della cittadinanza, i cui contenuti si svilupperanno attraverso il lavoro dei sindaci, delle rappresentanze istituzionali dei territori, ed il coinvolgimento della cittadinanza attiva." "It becomes ever more necessary to establish effective ways of managing common goods, such as water and public services, through new participatory forms of access and management, with citizens actively involved. We’re working at a new European Constitution, closer to citizens’ rights, to be developed through the efforts of all mayors and institutional representations of territories and through the engagement of active citizenship."

Lord Mayor of Copenhagen (Denmark)

General Secretary ACV-CSC Trade Union (Belgium): "L’eau, comme l’air, sont indispensables à la vie. En faire des marchandises, c’est s’éloigner de l’humanité. L’accès à l’eau, en qualité et en quantité, est un droit essentiel qui doit être garanti à tout être humain, partout sur la planète"

Founding member of the Italian Forum of Water Movements and one of the promoters of the successful 2011 Italian referendum against the privatization of water utilities: "Firstly, this is a matter of civilization. Universal access to water and sanitation is a basic human right, recognised by the UN General Assembly: now we ask the EU to act in line with this position, embracing and implementing such a fundamental right. This means stopping and immediately reversing the privatization of water utilities and the resulting commodification of water itself. But this is also a matter of democracy: the people of Europe should decide, and not the Troika, which follows the destructive prescriptions of neoliberal economics and exploits the crisis to destroy social rights and to privatize common goods and public services. Two years ago, in a popular Referendum, 27 million Italians voted against the privatization of water utilities and of local public services. This overwhelming victory shows us clearly that there is no such thing as a pre-ordained destiny: if we have the will, if we are capable of organizing, then we can defeat neoliberal policies. That is why it is now so crucial to sign and support the ECI on water, as the ECI is the first tool - however weak - of direct democratic participation provided at the European level, which gives voice to the people on what type of Europe we want: a Union based on real democracy, universal rights, common goods and public services for all. As citizens we can sign the ECI and become “legislators”, because we have no intention of letting the financial markets and the economic powers decide what our future should be"

Directrice générale de l’intercommunale belge Vivaqua et Administratrice déléguée d’Aqua Publica Europea: «Au sein d’Aqua Publica Europea, association qui regroupe les principaux acteurs publics de l’eau européens, je me bats pour que l’eau, bien public, reste entre les mains du public. » Christiane Franck, directeur-generaal van de Belgische intercommunale Vivaqua en gedelegeerd bestuurder van Aqua Publica Europea, steunt de actie 'right2water'. "Binnen Aqua Publica Europea, de Europese vereniging van de openbare wateroperatoren, strijd ik ervoor dat het beheer van het water, als openbaar goed, in handen van de openbare sector blijft".