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How Can Water be Fairly Distributed?
from news.bbc.co.uk
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From BBC -- This article provides a helpful diagram of the water cycle, and the information that by the year 2030, 3.9 billion people will be living in areas under severe water stress. Opinions on how to handle this pending crisis are fiercely opposed: some think that water should be traded as a commodity, while others argue that water is a human right.
“ Talking at a recent UN event, Maude Barlow, senior advisor on water to the organisation and an author and campaigner on water issues, said: "Water is not first and foremost a commercial good - though of course it has an economic dimension - but rather a human right and a public trust". ”
