Africa: Water Is Not a Commodity and Financial Asset to Be Exploited, Says UN Human Rights Expert

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Africa: Water Is Not a Commodity and Financial Asset to Be Exploited, Says UN Human Rights Expert

[OHCHR] Geneva -- Pedro Arrojo Agudo, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, said in a report that trading of water use rights in markets has eroded the notion of water as a common good and the State as a guarantor of the general interest.

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