A/HRC/RES/21/2 Affirming the need to focus on local and national perspectives in considering the issue, leaving aside questions of international watercourse law and all transboundary water issues, 1. Welcomes the recognition of the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation by the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council, and the reaffirmation by the latter that the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation is derived from the right to an adequate standard of living and inextricably related to the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, as well as the right to life and human dignity; 2. Also welcomes the commitments of States regarding the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation made at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development on 22 June 2012; 3. Further welcomes the fact that, according to the 2012 Joint Monitoring Programme report, the Millennium Development Goal target relating to the reduction by 50 per cent of people without access to an improved water source has been met five years before its deadline of 2015, insists that much remains to be done on safety, equity, equality and non-discrimination issues, and regrets the fact that the Millennium Development Goal target on sanitation is still one of the most off-track of the United Nations development agenda beyond 2015; 4. Welcomes the work of the Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, the comprehensive, transparent and inclusive consultations conducted with relevant and interested actors from all regions for her thematic reports and compilation of good practices, and the undertaking of country missions; 5. Also welcomes the second annual report of the Special Rapporteur submitted to the General Assembly on financing for the realization of the right to water and sanitation,1 and takes notes with appreciation of her recommendations and clarifications with regard to questions of financing the implementation of the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation; 6. Takes note of the fourth annual report of the Special Rapporteur submitted to the Human Rights Council;2 7. Expresses deep concern at the negative impact of discrimination, marginalization and stigmatization on the full enjoyment of the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation; 8. Reaffirms that States have the primary responsibility to ensure the full realization of all human rights and must take steps, nationally and through international assistance and cooperation, especially economic and technical, to the maximum of their available resources, to achieve progressively the full realization of the right to safe drinking water and sanitation by all appropriate means, including in particular the adoption of legislative measures in the implementation of their human rights obligations; 9. Takes note of the finding made by the Special Rapporteur that ensuring safe drinking water and sanitation for all will require considerably more resources; 10. Also takes note of the finding made by the Special Rapporteur that better targeted use of existing resources to prioritize the most excluded and marginalized, as well 1 2 A/66/255. A/HRC/21/42. 3