30 countries now have a constitutional or legal provision ensuring individuals’ access to water: the United States, Canada and China are not among them.
Is access to clean water a basic human right?
In the US, we have let the rich energy companies buy up the available water rights, in fact in Colorado; “Oil companies ‘have cornered the market’ on the Western Slope water rights”.
Oil-shale plans create ripple
We just think our corrupt elected officials let us down by not paying attention to the impending financial crisis until it was too late! Wait until we run completely out of water!
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