General commitments: The agreement establishes as its objective the work in coordination among the federal government, the states, municipalities and territorial demarcations (Main Agents), as well as ...
South Africa is one of only 52 countries that guarantee access to water as a human right. "Access" from a human rights ...
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 ...
LAWRENCE — There is no life without water — therefore access to water might be considered a human right. However, that has not always been the case in American water law. A new book explores of case ...
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 ...
When the United Nations General Assembly, in 2010, affirmed that ‘the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation’ (Resolution 64/292) is a human right, it impliedly recognised water as a ...
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 ...