EURO-ECO 2008 Hanover 18 - 20 November 2008	Environmental and Engineering Aspects for sustainable living
	European Academy of Natural Sciences, Hanover European Scientific Society, Hanover University of Bremen, Bremen

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Each living organism or a group of them exist in system of ecological intercommunications and combination of environmental factors. Such interaction leads to prosperity, depression or death.

Main environmental factor that determine quality of human living is water, because it’s use by mankind is thousand times more than other mineral resources (e.g. coal, oil). According to WHO data (World Health Organization) every sixth person utilizes water that fail to comply quality standard.

Human water rights comprise the embodied possibility of water utilisation with its adequate quantity, quality and physical availability.

The anthropogenic factor has a determining influence on formation of an aqueous environment.

Economical activity of the constantly growing population of the Earth results in the fact that instead of pure water obtained from nature, polluted water is returned, and in far smaller quantities.

Powerful adverse aqueous environmental impact is a serious problem for society that causes an increasing discrepancy between technosphere and hydrosphere.

Such imbalance in the conditions of growing population results a growing deficit of fresh water and low water quality.

If this problem is not solved in nearly 20-30 years, it may lead to the extinction of mankind.

Global conservation and recovery of an adequate quantity of liveable water depends on ecologisation of economical activity.

Thereto U.N.O., many intergovermental committee and tribunals aim to develop and deploy international ecological rules, intergovermental statutory acts, whose implementation all over the world could provide human water rights.

But here we are confronted with different approaches to water quality and definition of its deficit, absence of well-defined coordination of efforts of scientists, statesmen, hydroecological social communities.

Leaving behind all debates and discussions relating to common water problems, Dr. T. Kompaniets (international coordinator of WWRC) suggests considering and complementing Universal Declaration for Water rights, examined at WWRC (2008).

International admission of Declaration as a basic normative can be a first coordination stage of water rights adjudication.

On the second stage legal documents stipulation implementation and protection of the human water rights should be developed and accepted.

The responsibility for the quality of aquatic environment foundation is subject to the legal regulation in Ukraine. The concept of harmonious development of Ukraine as developed by Ukrainian scientists is based on the philosophical fundamentals (noosphere study by V. Vernadsky), resource-economical background (V.Shevchuk), system methodology of anticipation (E. Marchuk), and hydroecology (V. Romanenko).

Currently the ecologisation of the whole economical policy of our country is taking place: the ecological legislation and education undergo improvement, in the economical sphere the ecologization of technologies is being observed.