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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 12, 2008

Jury awards $11 million verdict in civil rights case

A federal grand jury in Ohio ordered the City of Zanesville and Muskingum County to pay 67 resident-plaintiffs $11 million for denial of piped water to the mostly black community for nearly 50 years. between 1956 and 2004, residents collected rainwater from their rooftops, or pumped from cisterns in their yards.

A jury found decades of racial discrimination in the distribution of piped water.

The case will be appealed to the 6th Circuit.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/us/12ohio.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1218596483-tWvE/MGdmkpcpeJkar0XsA
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