UN declares clean water a 'fundamental human right'

[MNeagle]

The UN has declared that access to clean water and sanitation is a fundamental human right.

A non-binding resolution was passed with 122 nations in favour, none against and 41 abstentions.

Abstaining countries said the resolution could undermine a process in the UN's Human Rights Council in Geneva to build a consensus on water rights.

According to the UN, about 1.5m children under five die each year from water and sanitation-related diseases.

The text of the resolution said that 884m people have no access to safe drinking water and more than 2.6bn lack access to basic sanitation.

It "declares the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of the right to life".

It urges the international community to "scale up efforts to provide safe, clean, accessible and affordable water and sanitation for all".

Canada, the US, the UK, Australia and Botswana were among the countries which abstained from voting.

China, Russia, Germany, France, Spain and Brazil were among those supporting the resolution.

Portuguese lawyer Catarina de Albuquerque is due to report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva next year on countries' obligations related to water and sanitation.

US delegate John Sammis said the resolution "falls far short of enjoying the unanimous support of member states and may even undermine the work underway in Geneva".

Some countries said the resolution did not clearly define the scope of the new human right and the obligations it entailed, says the BBC's Barbara Plett, at the UN in New York.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10797988

[Apparition]

What a better way of perpetuating the statist entitlement mentality?

And who's responsible for providing such? Oh, right, the taxpayers' income via the government.

I'm not a supporter of people lacking safe drinking water but to believe that others have a right to certain resources and goods only provides an incentive to create a massive welfare state to control people and enslave people to the government.

To hell with the UN.

One day I'd like to see them out of this country but that's unlikely.

[Ponce]

Apparition, and what do you think is happening to the Palestinian peopple where the Zionist Israelis take a crap in the clean water before letting the Palestinian people use it?..........and that's the main reason why is now coming up with the UN.

[Argentium]

I find rather annoying that the current crop of turd worlders insist that Whitey drill the wells and keep the pumps runnning. When they foul the new well with human waste and dead animals, then YT has to drill a new one. Amazing that the ancients were wise enough to know that you don't s**t were you drink. That pearl of wisdom must have been lost somewhere.

[Apparition]

Apparition, and what do you think is happening to the Palestinian peopple where the Zionist Israelis take a crap in the clean water before letting the Palestinian people use it?..........and that's the main reason why is now coming up with the UN.




I'd instead prefer that the UN members draft a resolution criticizing/questioning the Israelis for their despicable actions towards the Palestinians but, of course, we all know how likely it'll pass.

They could also hound and pester the Israelis for their actions.

Regardless, drafting a nonsensical resolution in response to despicable criminality won't solve anything.

[StackerKen]

Good

That should overrule of the state laws against collecting rain water then.

It's our (God given)'fundamental human right' to collect rain water

[Saul Mine]

Exactly who has the responsibility to collect and deliver the clean water that everybody has a right to receive? What if they decline to do the work? Not violating anybody's right to clean water, merely declining to collect it, treat it, and deliver it for them.

[General of Darkness]

Well, I declare.

Jews not touching money is a human right
Blacks not raping everything with a heart beat is a human right
Mestizos not sucking the finiancial life out of a country is a human right

Oh wait, all those "declares" are in the interests of white folks, and will fly like the African Space Program.

[Book]

http://www.jesswebster.com/africa/images/tanzania_serengeti_acacia_.jpg

Every zebra has a fundamental right to a shade tree!

:soap

[the white rabbit]

Get ready for Fluoride is good for you. Writers Note: The following is a lengthy article with links to government documents. In order to fully understand the argument presented, it is suggested the reader save the documents and study them. Keyword searches of the terms presented below will help better understand the dangers of fluoride.
http://www.infowars.com/world-net-daily-writer-says-fluoride-is-good-for-you-an-open-letter-to-phil-elmore/

[Awoke]

Well, I declare.

Jews not touching money is a human right
Blacks not raping everything with a heart beat is a human right
Mestizos not sucking the finiancial life out of a country is a human right

Oh wait, all those "declares" are in the interests of white folks, and will fly like the African Space Program.



Haha! Man, that was a "bad" post, but I still laughed.

[Awoke]

The NWO goal to turn water into a commodity has been ongoing for some time.
The incremental approach and linguistic trickery serves TPTB well, as they continue to forge ahead with plans to establish a fuedal Master VS Slave global government.



Privatization

These companies argue that privatizing water is the best way to deliver it safely to a thirsty world. This is yet another area of potential disagreement.
It is true that governments have done an abysmal job of protecting water within their boundaries. However, the answer is not to hand this precious resource over to transnational corporations who have escaped nation-state laws and live by no international law other than business-friendly trade agreements. The answer is to demand that governments begin to take their role seriously and establish full water protection regimes based on watershed management and conservation.

The privatization of water ensures that decisions regarding the allocation of water center almost exclusively on commercial considerations. Corporate shareholders are seeking maximum profit, not sustainability or equal access. Privatization means that the management of water resources is based on the principles of scarcity and profit maximization rather than long-term sustainability. Corporations are dependent on increased consumption to generate profits and are much more likely to invest in desalination, diversion, or export of water rather than conservation.

The global trend to commodify what has been a public service reduces the involvement of citizens in water management decisions. For example, private water projects brokered by the World Bank have minimal disclosure requirements. A water corporation executive at the recent World Water Forum in The Hague, said publicly that as long as water was coming out of the tap, the public had no right to any information as to how it got there. The concentration of power in the hands of a single corporation and the inability of governments to reclaim management of water services allow corporations to impose their interests on government, reducing the democratic power of citizens.



http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/57


Now here, the Council of Canadians print a letter in regards to the commoditization of water, including reference to a leaked document. I have linked the document below.




Once water's a commodity, no chance to turn off the tap
Susan Howatt
Port Hope Evening Guide (ON), April 30, 2007

To the Editor:

I am delighted to hear that Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay has declared that Ottawa will not negotiate bulk water exports and is committed to protecting water in its natural state ("Canada will not sell bulk water, Norlock says," Port Hope Evening Guide, Page 1, April 27).

That, of course, is not what any reasonable person would believe after reading through the leaked document (http://www.canadians.org/water/documents/NA_Future_2025.pdf) obtained by the Council of Canadians and posted on our website, which promised a meeting of government and business representatives to discuss the issue on Friday, April 27 in Calgary.

If the federal government were truly committed to protecting water in its natural state, it would seek an outright ban on the international bulk sales of water. Today, we are woefully vulnerable to our thirsty U.S. neighbours. All that exists is a voluntary provincial ban on bulk water exports that can be broken by any province at any time. (Newfoundland came close to selling its water a few years ago, but backed off under public pressure.)

With no binding legislation in place to protect boundary waters or the rivers and lakes in Canada's north, where the true prize lies, there exists only NAFTA, which could see water traded as a commodity, forever - with no chance to turn off the tap.

Susan Howatt / National Water Campaigner, Council of Canadians



The importance is to understand NAFTA's stipulations to the "free trade agreement".
Once the trading starts, it can not stop, unless both parties agree, which would never happen.
This topic and others are covered in detail in Maude Barlow's book entitled "Too Close for Comfort: Canada's future in fortress North America"

It talks about Globalization, but mostly focuses on the NAU agenda, and make no mention of the hebrews.



By declaring water a "Right", which it is, if you have it, they have corporate interests and western-world-destructive intentions; not humanitarian intentions. By this language they will strip the western world and other civilized nations of their water, sell it back to the middle classes at exorbant rates to further weigh down the yoke of jewish fiat slavery on the blue collars, and still the countries that suffer drought and thirst will find no water provided by the NWO.

I can promise you that.

On average the cost to dig a well in Africa is between $4500 and $35000.
On average the cost of deploying one U.S. soldier for one year in Iraq - $390000

Regarding the "cost" of war, in terms of digital fiat, after CNN PR mouthpiece Lawrence B. Lindsay initially stated the "Iraq War Would Cost $100 Billion to $200 Billion."



As it turns out, I was partly right. The war has not been economically ruinous. The bill for Iraq over the past five years is now approaching a cumulative $500 billion, or about $100 billion per year on average.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/10/news/economy/costofwar.fortune/index.htm

Notice, no mention of the cost of the invasion of Afghanistan or or countries suffering the effects of jewish imperialism at the hands of the USA and UN?

How many wells could they dig in a day with the fiat they use to fund the war?

[Ash_Williams]

Good

That should overrule of the state laws against collecting rain water then.

It's our (God given)'fundamental human right' to collect rain water

They'll just make sure the rain water isn't clean then there's no conflict.

[StackerKen]

I just don't see how something that falls from the sky could be valuable

But somehow it is?

[Awoke]

Besides oxygen, water is the key to survival for all living animals.

How could they not exploit leverage like that?

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

Well if you don't get water,

You won't be human for long.

They got that part correct.

[Book]

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[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

Nairobi Water Park

http://photos.travelblog.org/Photos/8999/354151/f/3220921-Nairobi-Water-Park-0.jpg


But at the same time....

"Nairobi water wars spill over to Mombasa..."

http://www.ntv.co.ke/News/Nairobi%20water%20wars%20spill%20over%20to%20Momba sa/-/471778/928172/-/1w71w4/-/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UJcmnuq2G8&feature=player_embedded