The Water Manifesto: Arguments for a World Water Contract
The Water Manifesto: Arguments for a World Water Contract
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水宣言：世界水合同的论据
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2001
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R. Petrella
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R. Petrella
全世界有15亿人缺乏饮用水，另有20亿人普遍缺乏清洁水。20年后，这些数字将翻一番。农业和工业污染正在降低各地淡水供应的质量。我们缺乏一套管理淡水供应权的国际法。获得水应该是一项普遍人权吗？供水是否应该由私有化的公司负责？Riccardo Petrella分析了对这些问题作出适当反应的障碍，并对将水视为商品而不是宝贵的社区资源和基本人权的市场导向体系提出了令人信服的批评。这本书呼吁世界水契约，将淡水视为所有人都有权享有的基本利益。它应由社区出于公共利益加以控制，并遵守公平管理和分配的国际规则。他还呼吁世界各地的公民、非政府组织和议员围绕这些需求动员起来，并立即为农村和城市穷人提供淡水。
One and a half billion people across the world lack drinking water and another two lack clean water generally. In 20 years time these numbers will have doubled. Agricultural and industrial pollution is degrading the quality of fresh water supplies everywhere. And we lack a body of international law regulating the right to fresh water supplies. Should access to water be a universal human right? Should the provision of water be left in the hands of privatized corporations? Riccardo Petrella analyses the obstacles in the way of an adequate response to these issues and sets out a cogent critique of a market-oriented system that sees water as a commodity rather than a precious community resource and fundamental human right. This book calls for a world water contract enshrining fresh water as an essential good to which all people have a right. It should be controlled by communities in the public interest, and with international rules for its equitable management and distribution. He also calls on citizens, NGOs and parliamentarians all over the world to mobilize around these demands, as well as for an immediate programme of fresh water provision for the rural and urban poor.