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From: Shiney Varghese <svarghese@iatp.org>
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Subject: Announcement: Water Manifesto: Arguments for a world water
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 03:41:24 -0500
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Right to Water (right-to-water@iatp.org) Posted: 08/28/2001 By svarghese@iatp.org
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Water Manifesto: Arguments for a world water contract by Riccardo Petrella
is available now with us for distribution at cost price.
(Please post this message to as many lists as possible).
One and a half billion people across the world lack drinking water and
another two lack clean water generally. In 20 years time these numbers will
have doubled. Current industrial and agricultural practices have left our
streams polluted, and groundwater contaminated. And we lack a body of
international law regulating the right to fresh water supplies. Should
access to water be a universal human right? Should the provision of water
be managed by privatized corporations?
Riccardo Petrella analyses the obstacles in the way of an adequate response
to these issues and sets out a cogent critique of a market-oriented system
that sees water as a commodity rather than a precious community resource
and fundamental human right.
This book calls for a world water contract enshrining fresh water as an
essential good to which all people have a right. It should be controlled by
communities in the public interest, and with international rules for its
equitable management and distribution. He also calls on citizens, NGOs and
parliamentarians all over the world to mobilize around these demands, as
well as for an
immediate programme of fresh water provision for the rural and urban poor.
Cost when ordered through us: $11 per copy plus postage & handling.
For more information on the manifesto, or to order a copy, please visit our
website at www.waterobservatory.org, or write to mbyrne@iatp.org
best regards
Shiney Varghese
Global Governance Program,
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy,
2105, First Avenue South,
Minneapolis, MN 55404-2505, USA.
Phone: 612-870-3471; Fax: 612-870-4846
svarghese@iatp.org; http://www.iatp.org
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