U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation


Water Cut-off in U.S. City Violates Human Rights, Say Activists

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Over the last decade, Detroit residents have seen water rates rise by 119 percent. Credit: Bigstock/IPS

When the United Nations reaches out to resolve a water or sanitation crisis, it is largely across urban slums and remote villages in Asia, Africa or Latin America and the Caribbean. But a severe water crisis in the financially bankrupt city of Detroit in the U.S. state of Michigan has prompted several non-governmental organisations and […]

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