After almost a year, the members of the Constitutional Commission will continue their discussion on writing the right to drinking water into the Constitution. The political will and the wishes of the citizens in favour of the amendment of the Constitution could achieve the amendment to be made already this summer.

Doctor Vasilka Sancin agrees that it is a good initiative, yet she cautions: "The right to access to safe drinking water arises from other rights written in our Constitution, therefore the state already has the obligation to assure this right. But writing this right into the Constitution would mean an additional legal protection, and of even greater importance is the adoption of a systemic law which would regulate the execution of the right."

Brane Golubovič from the initiative For Slovenia and Freedom, the civil Initiative which had collected more than 51,000 signatures, mentioned that providing citizens with drinking water takes absolute precedence over all the other uses of water.

And which is the present situation in Slovenia? Local companies have 10 water wells, and foreign owners, after purchasing Radenska, Costella, Droga Kolinska, Pivovarna Laško - 28 wells. Over 70% of all the industrial wells are owned by multinational companies. Only one from the 11 new concession granted last year by the state was to a Slovenian company, Dana from Mirna. Foreign-owned companies are bottling four times more water than Slovenian companies. But, as already stated, just by writing the right into Constitution nothing will change; it is necessary to amend the legislation regulating granting of concessions.