The Human Right To Water

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There is enough safe, clean drinking water for every person on this planet. Yet, one in four people worldwide don't have enough safe drinking water, while corporations exploit this global crisis to drive public water into private hands.

Public Solutions are Best Solutions

Because the human right to water is a basic obligation of governments, universal access is best realized when the management and control of water is in the public’s hands. We support democratically accountable water systems and help create the political space for these public solutions to thrive through hard-hitting campaigns, advocacy and strategic alliances.

On every continent, public water systems are employing innovative approaches to reliably deliver water to communities in need. The most successful are cooperative, participatory, equitable and not for profit. For example, there’s an employee’s cooperative in Bangladesh, a community water management system in Nepal, and the remunicipalization of Paris, France’s water system. Read more about Paris’s reclamation of its water system in this report.

Corporate Interference Threatens Human Right to Water

Political interference by private water corporations threatens the ability of communities to guarantee the human right to water for all.

Attempting to gain a foothold in the water market (estimated to be $400 billion-plus), global corporations use their vast resources to gain influence in international governing bodies such as the U.N. and funders like the World Bank.

Some examples:

More: http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/human-right-water

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1. I worry that one day

The people in Vegas will be tapping into my beloved Great Lakes to support their green lawns and general existence in the desert.