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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.

Monday, June 16, 2008

The High Court of South Africa: Mazibuko and The City of Johannesburg (April 30, 2008)

In a decision involving the rights to water for poor residents of the township of Phiri, South Africa, the High Court (Court) held that the forced installation of a prepayment water meter system without the option of an “all available” water supply option was unconstitutional and unlawful. The Court ordered the City of Johannesburg to provide each applicant and other similarly situated residents of Phiri with free basic water supply of 50 liters per person per day, thus setting aside the City’s decision to limit the water supply to 25 liters per person per day. The Court required Johannesburg to pay for the installation of a metered water supply to allow residents of Phiri that option....

http://www.asil.org/ilib/2008/06/ilib080603.htm#j2
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