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Security & Strategic Review - August 2025
GUATEMALA: Renewed focus on need for water law
In early July international NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a new report documenting the human rights toll of inadequate access to water and sanitation in Guatemala. The report underlines that the problem is not a lack of resources, as Guatemala actually has “more renewable freshwater per capita than the global average”, but rather a failure in governance. It comes as the left-of-centre government led by President Bernardo Arévalo has pledged to introduce a water bill to congress which HRW highlights could, if well-designed, prove an “essential step toward ensuring effective water governance and guaranteeing the human rights to water and sanitation”.
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