UN General Assembly declare access to clean water a human right

Thursday, July 29th 2010 - 05:43 UTC

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Safe and clean drinking water and sanitation is a human right essential to the full enjoyment of life and all other human rights, the General Assembly declared Wednesday, voicing deep concern that almost 900 million people worldwide do not have access to clean water. Read full article

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harrier61
Where does this bunch of clowns get its concept of “human rights”? I see its put foward by another dopey South American state.

Try figuring some of those so-called “human rights”? Start with the right to life. You're in the water in the middle of an ocean. No boat, no buoyancy aid, no communications. At what point does the ocean pay attention to your “right to life”? Work out all the other so-called “human rights” the same way.
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