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– Water is essential to life – no one should be able to control it or expropriate it for profit. The right to water has been recognized internationally through the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. But in 2002, the Canadian government was the only one to vote against accepting water as a human right at the United Nations Commission on Human Rights…
read more on the Council of Canadians site.

– Support the campaign to make water a basic human right – secure the right to water at rightowater.ca

– Protect British Columbia’s Sacred Headwaters and join the campaign! skeenawatershed.com

Maude Barlow’s Report

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Introduction

1) Toward an Understanding of the Commons

2) The Enclosure and Commodification of the Fresh Water Commons: How It’s Done

3) The Case Against the Commodification of Water and for Retaining it in the Commons

4) The Global Movement to Reclaim the Freshwater Commons and Distribute it More Fairly

5) Toward a New Freshwater Narrative Based on Commons Principles

Conclusion, Sources, and Further Reading