(Taking context-optional note of thought-provoking quotes)
What we need now are guiding principles that set priorities for water. Water is a public trust that belongs to the Earth and all species. It is a basic human right. Yes, there is a commercial dimension to water. But the only possible path to a water secure future is based on the twin foundations of conservation and justice. All water use, public and private, must now serve these goals.
--
Maude Barlow (left), board chair for the D.C.-based nongovernmental organization
Food & Water Watch, senior advisor on water to U.N. General Assembly President
Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, and author of
Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water (2007), in a recent
San Francisco Chronicle op-ed about the
right to water, an issue on which IntLawGrrls also have posted.
