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We set up this blog to discuss issues surrounding universal access to safe, physically accessible, sufficient and affordable clean water. These issues include, but are not limited to: 1) whether access to clean water should be enshrined as a fundamental human right; 2) how to respond to the increasingly prevalent treatment of water as a commodity rather than a public good (corporate social responsibility and water); 3) clean water as global health issue; 4) clean water as a poverty issue; 5) clean water as a global security issue; 6) clean water as a gender issue.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

More on corruption in the water sector

National Geographic's article on corruption in the water sector.

"Water Mafias" Put Stranglehold on Public Water Supply

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080821-water-mafias.html

"In Honduras, for example, residents who either cannot afford connections to centralized water systems or live in places where water is not easily accessible pay 40 percent more for informal water supplies, said TI's Donal O'Leary."

See Transparency International's report (link at the right).
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