of the right in question, but rather, in my view, because of the challenge of determining whether this universality should embrace only the already complex reality of present subjects, or also extend to the community of future ones. The question is by no means a minor one, if one considers that the very scarcity of water would rightly lead to the view that the so-called future generations are already those of the present, no less than they will, with all evidence, also be those of the subjects yet to come.14 This glimpse into reality allows us to graft, still on a normative topological level, another level on which—almost in the manner of a slide along a kind of Möbius strip—the right to water flows through the river of our existence, namely the right to equality. How much this pendant between the one right and the other complicates, to some extent, the configuration of the interests at stake in the matter under discussion is evident to all. This must certainly be kept in its proper light, not so much in order to dwell on a systematic or general theoretical analysis of the aforementioned subjective positions, but rather to highlight, in programmatic terms and in terms of public and economic policies, that the path being followed towards the full recognition of a right to water must, as is plainly evident, soon be subjected to an unavoidable capitalist refrain, so as to be transformed into a wiser course capable of blocking, or at least smoothing out, the manifest socio-economic inequalities present across the various countries of the world.15 This path, far from being marked in a benevolently rhetorical fashion, must on the contrary be grasped and consolidated with a view to a more effective management of the real asymmetries generated, time and again, precisely by the most disadvantaged environmental and urban contexts. If this is true, as it seems to me to be, one must then agree that legislative policies on the right to water, now emerging globally as a fundamental asset of contemporary and future geopolitics, must of necessity be the outcome of a shared endeavour—an endeavour capable, at the same time, of valuing the juridical-prismatic imprint of a right such as the right to water, and of committing itself to relaunching—also with a view to no less significant syndemic prevention 14 P. Pantalone, La regolazione del servizio idrico tra esigenze di integrità dell’ambiente, efficienza del sistema e protezione delle generazioni future, in E. Balboni, S. Vaccari (edited by), Acqua. Bene e servizio pubblico, Napoli, 2019, p. 141 ff. 15 On this need is tranchant J. Rifkin, Pianeta Acqua. Ripensare la nostra casa nell’universo, Milano, 2024. 433 WATER GOVERNANCE AND RIGHT TO FOOD
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