Calling water "a basic human right" is the same thing as saying the engineers who design the storage and delivery system, the chemists who make it sanitary, and the technicians who monitor and maintain the system all belong to you. Their time and labor isn't theirs, it's yours. You get to lay claim to it, right? I mean, if water is a right and that's how water is obtained, then by extension you have a "right" to other people's efforts.
You know, what nobody dare confront in all these Pore & Starvin' stories is the unstated reality: some people simply have nothing to offer that other people are willing to trade for. Such people are a bearable burden in societies that are productive, but the transition to suddenly unbearable happens quite fast. I think we are already seeing it.