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- Nov 2022
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foodispower.org foodispower.org
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That is, US consumers purchase about 28 billion bottles of water every year
Water is a business product
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About 90 percent of the world’s freshwater stocks currently remain under public control
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onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.libproxy.db.erau.edu onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.libproxy.db.erau.edu
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The claim to a human right to water rests on shaky legal ground: no explicit right to water is expressed in the most relevant international treaty,4 although the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights5 issued a comment in 2002, asserting that every person has a right to “sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible, and affordable water”
Water is not considered to be a human right like food, shelter, and dignity are. Evidence: no explicit right to water is expressed in the international treaty
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