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 ...

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: ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned in a new report released Wednesday on Guatemala's water crisis, which it stressed endangers the health and fundamental rights of millions of Guatemalans, particularly ...

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 ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday accused Israel of “acts of genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza by depriving them of adequate water supplies.

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 ...

Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians in Gaza by denying them clean water which it says legally amounts to acts of genocide and extermination.

Panaji:Goa Human Rights Commission on Friday recommended that a separate water connection be provided to a senior citizen couple occupying a portion of the family house in Shiroda. The panchayat ...

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 ...

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 ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday accused Israel of “acts of genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza by depriving them of adequate water supplies.