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The water manifesto: arguments for a world water contract

The water manifesto: arguments for a world water contract
The water manifesto: arguments for a world water contract
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. Agricultural and industrial pollution is degrading the quality of fresh water supplies everywhere. 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 left in the hands of 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.
1856499065
Zed Books
Petrella, Riccardo
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Fawcett, B. N.
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Petrella, Riccardo
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Fawcett, B. N.
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Petrella, Riccardo and Fawcett, B. N. (2002) The water manifesto: arguments for a world water contract , London, GB. Zed Books, 160pp.

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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. Agricultural and industrial pollution is degrading the quality of fresh water supplies everywhere. 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 left in the hands of 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.

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Published date: 5 October 2002

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Local EPrints ID: 75146
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/75146
ISBN: 1856499065
PURE UUID: f9333858-f5fd-405a-bb3d-e850848d3281

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Date deposited: 11 Mar 2010
Last modified: 22 Jul 2022 17:16

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Author: Riccardo Petrella
Author: B. N. Fawcett

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