Democratic Alliance SA Today by Helen Zille Leader of the DA What not to do when a province runs dry In democracies across the world today, access to clean drinking water is a basic human right. In 2010 the United Nations voted to expand the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to include the right to clean water. Governments who supported this, like ours, commit to ensuring that people can enjoy sufficient, safe, accessible and affordable water, without discrimination. When something goes wrong, as is inevitable in any country, and water access is interrupted, these governments have a duty to resolve the problem without delay and reconnect people as soon as humanly possible. Being stuck without water is not simply an inconvenience. To read more, click on this link: bit.ly/1vGi4NM
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 06:59:48 +0000
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