Sentences with phrase «right to water»

Therefore, in the post 2015 framework is needed new and more ambitious commitments to develop actions with the human right to water and sanitation and sustainable development.

But the analysis of coverage as indicator of the human right to water is shown inadequate.

We have volunteers going to try to get people to sign up to sign the UN right to water for people — which is a UN-designated right now, falling under the 1948 rights declaration.

Tapped Out: Threats to the Human Right to Water in the Urban United States by the Georgetown Law Human Rights Institute Fact - Finding Practicum

With lawns stretching right to the water's edge of Lake Wanaka, Edgewater is nestled within the spectacular Southern Alps on the South Island of New Zealand.

Donovan, now 82 - years old, broke down when Panda trotted into her home and went right to the water bowl, kept right in the same spot as when Panda was a puppy.

We have incorporated recognition of and respect for the human right to water into the Nestlé Corporate Business Principles.

«We got this plan in the first place by South Australia threatening to take High Court action against the eastern states and the Commonwealth because of our constitutional rights to water,» he said.

A Texas law granting landowners unrestricted rights to the water beneath their property makes it possible for Pickens to sell groundwater from his 24,000 - acre Mesa Vista Ranch in the Texas panhandle to metropolises as far away as Dallas and El Paso.

Most of those state laws share the basic principle that the first people to arrive in the West should hold the most senior rights to its water.

Originally devised in part to keep speculators from hoarding water to build wealth and power, the intent of «use it» laws was to make sure the people who held rights to water exercised them.

AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition Meeting The Human Right to Water January 26 - 27, 2017 #shrcoalition

The Human Right to Water Bill in California: An Implementation Framework for State Agencies, a report by the Berkeley Clinic; and

If it does not comply, Fresno will lose rights to water deliveries from the federally administered Central Valley Project.

This fabled place occupies a large swatch of the island's west coast, with Sandy Lane villa rentals sweeping down from golfing neighborhoods right to the water's edge.

Your input — in special breakout group discussions — will inform this urgent global conversation from the human right to water valuing ecosystems.

His grassroots and «grasstops» strategy has involved Right to Water protest rallies as well as public forums that have compelled World Bank officials to confront and debate their critics.

The National Water Initiative also commits all States and Territories of the MDB to increasing indigenous representation in water planning; recognising Indigenous peoples water needs, and providing for Indigenous access to water resources; incorporating indigenous social, spiritual and customary objectives and strategies; and acknowledging the possible existence of native title rights to water.

The Provincial Government through a private development can take away the public rights to the water and shoreline.

Around back, forest stretches right to the water's edge, a truly stunning sight to be seen from one of the resort's catamarans.

On the east side the land slopes into San Diego Bay more gradually, so that homes and developments go right to the water's edge.

2009 — Maude Barlow, a widely celebrated activist and author of 16 books who co-founded the Blue Planet Project, an organization that champions the human right to water.

We believe that effective water stewardship will require that provisions are made firstly for water to meet the human right to water, then to ensure that ecosystems are able to function, and finally to ensure that water is used efficiently for agricultural and industrial use.

Irit Tamir of OxFam America outlined seven investments the world needs to make to feed our growing populations, such as investing in women, supporting small - scale farmers and securing everyone's right to water.

Nestlé Chairman, Peter Brabeck - Letmathé, says it is extreme to suggest people have a right to water, then gave Matt Damon an award (and a Nespresso advertising contract) for setting up a website supporting water projects in developing countries (will Matt speak out on Nestlé's water policies or keep quiet and follow George Clooney's example and say he is only «trying to make a living»?).

Mr Brabeck is infamous for suggesting that people do not have a right to water (comments he has more recently tried to modify).

#WaterIsAHumanRight: Human Rights to Water and Sanitation.

Explores the benefits and content of a right to water.