It is well settled in international human rights law that a human right to water exists.  Nevertheless, to date, there has been little scholarship about what the practical contours of the right should be.  If legal tools are to benefit the world’s poor and disenfranchised, they cannot be void due to the impossibility of implementation.  This is the problem with the purported human right to water: it is quixotic. This Article proposes a pragmatic solution to the potable water