“ [London] does not believe that there exists at present sufficient legal basis under international law to either declare or recognize water or sanitation as free-standing human rights.
— British U.N. delegate Nicola Freedman regarding United Nations Resolution A/64/L.63/Rev.1, the Human Right to Water. The United States also offered its own weaselly and pathetic explanation in legalese as to why they don’t see water and sanitation as a human right. The (non-binding!) measure was presented by Bolivia, a country familiar with having to fight for this right against the efforts of privatization.
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