Water as Basic Human Right Has a Market Price, Says U.N. Chief

As the 193-member General Assembly commemorates the first anniversary of its landmark resolution pronouncing water and sanitation to be a basic human right, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon triggered a political controversy last week when he implicitly declared that even human rights have a market price. "Let us be clear," he asserted, "a right to water and sanitation does not mean that water should be free." Rather, he said, it means that water and sanitation services should be affordable and available for all, and that member states must do everything in their power to make this happen. Read more: http://j.mp/x2wkQS

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