Mayor of Paris (France)

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."

Adjoint au maire de Paris, chargé de Paris Métropole & des relations avec les collectivités territoriales d'Ile de France : "L'eau est à nous"

ABVAKABO FNV Trade Union (Netherlands): “A dignified life starts with water”

Deputy General Secretary IMPACT Trade Union (Ireland): "I sign for the right to water"

Secrétaire Générale, OBUSSAS – Observatoire des Usagers de l’Assainissement en Ile-de-France: « Alors que l’ONU a reconnu le droit à l’eau et à l’assainissement comme un droit fondamental de l’Homme, il est plus qu’urgent qu’en France comme en Europe le droit à l’eau devienne une réalité pour toutes et tous. »

Mayor of Genoa (Italy)

Professor, Manchester University, UK: "Water is not just a human right, access to water is a matter of democratic equality".

President EVDSZ Trade Union (Hungary): "I sign for the Human Right to Water"

Coordinator Water Justice Network and Professor at Wageningen University, Netherlands: "Secure access to safe and sufficient water is fundamental for human beings and their social, natural and cultural living environments, but is increasingly threatened by powerful interests and agents who see it foremost as a commodity apt for profit-making business. Amidst water policies and practices that tend to be coloured by fundamentally unequal relations of power, the human right to water for all, and a fair and sustainable distribution of available water, are among the main issues and struggles of our time”

General Secretary European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), Poland: "Water and sanitation services cannot be treated as an ordinary commodity when they are so essential to life itself. People cannot live without water, children do not grow up healthily. Access to drinking water is a very basic requirement, a fundamental human right. And yet in Europe, water and sanitation services are increasingly privatized, making their access more difficult for people who cannot pay for them"

Entertainer, Denmark: "I sign for the right to Water"

EU-Commissioner for Regional Policy and Cohesion from 1995 to 1999: ”I fully support the aim of the campaign “right2water”. As the first European Citizens’ Initiative it is a positive example that shows: people want to be involved in European politics and to be proactive. This is very important to promote Europe and to foster direct democracy.” EU-Kommissarin für Regionalpolitik und Kohäsion 1995 bis 1999: „Das Bürgerbegehren „Menschenrecht auf Wasser“ hat ein wichtiges Ziel, das ich unterstütze. Als erste europäische Bürgerinitiative ist es zugleich ein positives Zeichen dafür, dass sich die Menschen in die europäische Politik einbringen und aktiv werden wollen. Dies ist ein wichtiger Schritt zu mehr Bürgernähe und zur Stärkung der Demokratie durch bürgerschaftliches Engagement.“

President of the Republic of Poland from 1995 to 2005: "With pleasure I take under my honorary patronage this European Citizens’ Initiative, as important for humanitarian reasons. I would like to accentuate, that this initiative is consistent with the resolution of United Nations General Assembly from 28th July 2010, which declared, that the right to water and sanitation is the right of every human being"

President Social Platform (Germany): "Social Platform is pleased to support the campaign “Water is a human right” as access to affordable public services is a key concern of our members. Moreover, water is not an ordinary commodity: it is a basic requirement, a fundamental human right. Social Platform therefore asks EU decision makers to protect access to water from commercial interests and to promote a rights-based approach."