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The “human right to water” act, also known as Senate Bill 25, was introduced in the Michigan Senate last month and referred to the Committee on Housing and Human Services. Read next: ...
Water futures trading opens a new frontier for privatization — one that further threatens our human right to clean, affordable water. In late 2020, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) launched the ...
Without water, humans simply cannot survive, much less flourish. Yet the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) nowhere included water in its enumeration of basic rights. Subsequent ...
More than a decade after California passed the Human Right to Water Act, about 1 million residents still lack access to clean, safe, affordable water. California's struggle for clean water is ...
Ten years ago, Californians impacted by unsafe and unaffordable water secured legal recognition of the human right to water. Since then, activists have leveraged California’s vital water law to ...
Some of the first people to protest a change in Flint’s water source 10 years ago returned to march on City Hall on Thursday, April 25, pledging to never forget the water crisis they lived ...