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The International Human Right to Water
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UUSC's Environmental Justice Program seeks to promote and defend the human right to water. To achieve this goal, UUSC supports civil society and grassroots groups in the struggle against water privatization and depletion and promotes citizen involvement in the utilization and management of water as a common resource. UUSC works to influence government policies related to environmental justice and mobilize activists to hold government, agencies, and socioeconomic elites accountable for water-rights violations.
Recently, our partners in Tanzania,South Africa, and Ecuador have won amazing victories in the defense and promotion of the human right to water. Through itsColor of Water Project, our partner Massachusetts Global Action (MGA) in Boston has done extensive research on the human right to water, including challenging the disproportionate number of water shutoffs in low-income areas of Boston. With the launch of its local campaign, MGA plans to release a full report in April 2008.
Featured stories about the international human right to water
 Ecuadorians won a major victory on July 25, 2008, when provisions to enshrine the human right to water were approved for Ecuador's new draft constitution, which will be put to a national vote in September. |
 Water and human rights are inextricably linked, a fact that the people of Tanzania know all too well. The Tanzanian government chose to privatize the water system, and in 2003 a subsidiary of the British corporation Biwater was granted a water concession in Dar Es Salaam. But under Biwater, the water situation only deteriorated. |
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