Privatization of Water as an Owned Commodity Rather Than a Universal Human Right | Global Research

Privatization of Water as an Owned Commodity Rather Than a Universal Human Right | Global Research

There is no greater natural resource on this earth than water. As
the sustenance of all life, water keeps every living and breathing
organism, every plant, every animal and every human being on this planet
alive. In the same way that without air to breathe, without water we
humans cannot sustain life for more than a few days.

Due to global warming, widespread drought and increasingly polluted
water systems, the projected availability of clean freshwater in years
to come to meet the rising demands of a growing global population is
among the most daunting human challenges of this century. By 2015 a 17%
increase in global water demand is projected just for increasing
agriculturally produced food. By the same year 2025, the growing global
population will increase water consumption needs by a whopping 40%.
While oil played the keenly critical role during the twentieth century,
water is being deemed the most valued precious natural resource of the
twenty-first century.

As such, several years ago the United Nations declared
access to clean drinking water a universal human right. Conversely,
willfully denying it is considered a serious human rights violation that
denies life itself. And any calculated decision denying people their
universal right to life is nothing short of a murderous, shameful crime
against humanity.