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Home > Press Releases > Water > U.S. is All Wet on UN Right to Water
July 27th, 2010

U.S. is All Wet on UN Right to Water

Joint Statement of Maude Barlow, Board Chair, and Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director, Food & Water Watch

Washington, D.C.—”Tomorrow, the UN General Assembly will consider a landmark resolution to finally recognize the human right to water. It’s time to reach consensus that the world’s poor deserve recognition of this human right without further delay or equivocation.

“Anything less will affirm that the world’s powerful nations are all wet when it comes to alleviating poverty and addressing the greatest human rights violation of our time. The coming storm sets up a North/South divide the body can ill afford.

“Unfortunately, we fear the U.S. will continue to lead in obstructing recognition of the human right to water.

“This outdated policy puts the American government out of touch with its citizens and its core values as a nation. Municipalities from Detroit to the states of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania have all passed resolutions or otherwise acknowledged that water is a human right.

“It’s not too late for the Obama administration to say ‘Yes We Can’ to provision of clean water, starting with support of the resolution tomorrow in the General Assembly.” 

For more information, visit http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/world-water/right/.

Contact: Darcey Rakestraw, (202) 683-2467; drakestraw (at) fwwatch.org.

Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. So we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of where their food comes from, keep clean, affordable, public tap water flowing freely to our homes, protect the environmental quality of oceans, force government to do its job protecting citizens, and educate about the importance of keeping shared resources under public control.
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