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communities and stakeholders in decision-making on wastewater management
in order to promote sustainable solutions;
(g) States must ensure adequate funding for wastewater management
and pollution control. They must make efficient use of resources to avoid failed
investments and unsustainable solutions, and they must carefully target
resources to reach the most disadvantaged. They must ensure that wastewater
charges are affordable to the population, including the most disadvantaged,
and at the same time must raise appropriate charges from polluters and
implement and enforce the “polluter pays” principle;
(h) States and non-State actors should carry out and publish impact
assessments in line with human rights standards and principles. They should
avoid referring to the confidentiality of information as an argument to keep
impact assessments inaccessible. States must put in place effective, timely and
accessible accountability mechanisms and ensure access to justice. States and
other actors should improve data on wastewater and pollution, inter alia, also
covering contamination through sludge and septage;
(i) Donors, international organizations and other non-State actors,
including the private sector, should meet their human rights obligations and
responsibilities respectively, and support States in improving wastewater
management and pollution control, in particular through targeting resources to
address the most urgent and serious challenges and improve the lives and
livelihoods of the most excluded and disadvantaged populations;
(j) States should promote the integration of human rights into the post2015 sustainable development agenda through, inter alia, incorporating the
elimination of inequalities, drinking water safety, the collection and treatment
of wastewater, especially addressing faecal sludge management, and putting
particular emphasis on monitoring informal settlements.
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