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Article

7 Sep 2005

Author:
Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service

A U.N. Treaty on the Human Right to Water?

Kathryn Mulvey, executive director of Corporate Accountability International...said that ongoing water privatisation by corporations like Suez, and expansion of bottled water markets by corporations like Coca-Cola, are clearly contributing to the world's water problems... Gourisankar Ghosh, executive director of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council...argued that the private sector has to be brought in for better management and better efficiency..."But certainly, the regulatory control of the resource should still be in the hands of the government"...