A/HRC/36/45/Add.1 (f) Develop and undertake a comprehensive assessment of the institutional arrangements in the water and sanitation sector from a human rights perspective and take measures to ensure that current tensions in the sector do not jeopardize the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation for any of the Portuguese population; (g) Incorporate the principles of equality and non-discrimination in the enjoyment of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, ensuring sustainability of the services in the institutional framework of the Portuguese water sector and possible future reforms; (h) Carefully monitor the processes by which concessions are granted for water and sanitation services in order to reduce the financial burden and risks for municipalities; (i) Develop and issue guidelines for water and sanitation service providers concerning disconnection of water and sanitation services with a view to protecting those who are economically unable to pay for those services, and establish protection mechanisms for those groups; (j) Develop a comprehensive method for disaggregation of data on water and sanitation access by wealth level, migratory status, ethnic group and other grounds of discrimination, in order to facilitate the development of focused policies for the proper protection of the populations most in need; (k) Include in the National Roma Communities Integration Strategy references to access to safe drinking water and sanitation and measures that need to be taken in order to ensure such access; (l) Ensure that individual solutions meet all the normative content of the human rights to water and sanitation, ensuring that individual water solutions are provided continuously and that the quality of water from wells or boreholes meets the official standards and that water from those sources is protected from different sources of contamination; (m) Develop a more proactive system to disseminate information on water quality, particularly by including it on water bills, and information on existing practices, policies and resources that promote economic access to water and sanitation; (n) Provide further support to local governments in relation to the construction and maintenance of individual solutions for sanitation, particularly for those who are in vulnerable situations, including people living in informal settlements and the homeless; (o) Conduct official studies and surveys on the reasons behind non-payment with a view to identifying those households that are financially unable to pay for their water and sanitation services; (p) Recommend that the water and sanitation providers set policies to reconcile affordability and financial sustainability as part of their financial management; (q) Recommend that social tariffs for water and sanitation services are made more flexible to adapt to unforeseen situations, such as financial crises, and that the definitions of large families that are eligible for the family tariff are made more appropriate; (r) Urge the Water and Waste Services Regulation Authority and the Water and Waste Services Regulation Authority for Azores to ensure that their policies, procedures and activities comply with the international human rights obligations of Portugal; (s) Urge the Water and Waste Services Regulation Authority, the Ministry of the Environment and other relevant institutions to implement and monitor the automatic application of social tariffs and to conduct further studies on the criteria 19

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