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Water is the basis for life.

Yet, one in nine people lack access to clean, safe drinking water, while corporations exploit this global crisis to drive public water into private hands. We advance and protect the human right to water, challenging the abuse of global water profiteers. Learn More

Nearly one in nine people lack access to enough clean water.

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Human Right to Water Upheld

Children fetching water at the bore hole

Compelled by global water advocates and government champions, the U.N. General Assembly upheld the fundamental human right to water.

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Shayda Edwards Naficy
Last week, Jakarta’s governor announced his intention to cancel the Indonesian city’s private water contracts and return Jakarta’s water to public control. Victory here will have global impacts for millions of people's water and be a major setback for water privateers and institutions like the World Bank promoting this failed model.
A local group protesting St. Louis’ proposed consulting contract with a water services firm is planning to converge on City Hall this afternoon for the monthly meeting of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment.
Maria Theresa Lauron speaks at the World Water Forum
Corporate Accountability International
The story of Maria Theresa Lauron, a water activist in the Philippines. A key ally in Corporate Accountability International’s campaign to halt the global corporate water grab, she is unflagging in her efforts to compel the World Bank to cease financing water profiteering and instead support local, democratic control of the tap.

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