SOC 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Multiregional Origin Of Modern Humans, Equal Protection Clause, Asthma
Document Summary
The private water industries are polluting and destroying the world"s freshwater commons. With no regulatory oversight or government control, there will be no protections for the natural world, and a need to safeguard integrated ecosystems from water plundering. The more private interests control water supplies, the less government and public interests have to say about them. Water, and water infrastructure- from drinking water and sanitation utilities services, to bottled water, clean-up technologies and nuclear powered desalination plants- will flow where the money is, not where it is needed. No corporation is in business to deliver water to the poor. Global water justice movement is of one voice that water must be seen as a basic human right and must not be denied to anyone because of the inability to pay. Governments must declare their domestic water commons a public good and take responsibility for delivering clean, safe water as a public service to all their citizens.
