María, a 41-year-old Indigenous Maya woman from Guatemala lives without access to running water. Three times a week, she makes a two-hour round trip to collect water from a well or ravine, sometimes ...
South Africa is one of only 52 countries that guarantee access to water as a human right. "Access" from a human rights perspective means that water is physically accessible, clean and safe for ...
The South African Human Rights Commission has launched an inquiry into the province’s worsening water crisis, warning that persistent shortages, ageing infrastructure and governance failures may amoun ...
Did you know that in California, there’s a human right to affordable water? In 2012, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 685, adding this language to the state Water Code: “every human being has the ...
New Legislation Extends Prohibition on Tax Sales For Unpaid Water Bills to All Marylanders Annapolis, MD – Ahead of Wednesday’s start to the next state legislative session, water, housing and legal ...
Malynndra Tome was helping to map livestock ponds in the Navajo Nation when she saw something that inspired her to act. An elderly woman was filling milk jugs with water at the back of a gas station ...
The South African government needs to increase the amount of free basic water provided to impoverished households. Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg/Getty Images South Africa is one of only 52 countries that ...