Water is a consumer right
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Water is essential for life and a limiting factor in development. But one in six of the world's people have no access to clean water and twice as many lack adequate sanitation. In the mushrooming cities of the developing world, the growing gap between demand and supply leaves the poor unserved. In rural areas, water for living also means water for crops. The United Nations predicts that by 2050, at least one out of four people are likely to live in countries affected by chronic or recurrent shortages of freshwater. Provision of water is predominantly in public sector hands, operating through state-owned infrastructure and municipal services. Service is often inefficient, from antiquated networks plagued by leakage and disrepair. Or simply non-existent, and left to the informal sector of vendors of jerry-cans and tankers. Water resources have been squandered by mismanagement and drained by agricultural subsidies and industrial contamination. In....
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