The Water Manifesto: The right to life for all
Of: Riccardo Petrella
Edited by: OR.
"Today more than one and a half billion people lack access to safe drinking water; in 2020 will be more than three billion.
It is utopian to think that everyone in the world will have water in twenty years? What are the viable solutions? It is right to privatize and let the market to solve the problem?
There is an alternative, and what is proposed in the Manifesto of the water, now also published in Italy, winner in 2000 International Prize of the writings of water.
Water must not become the oil of tomorrow.
Contrariarmente idea that water is “blue gold”, This text states that it must be considered as a common good, Heritage.
It also proposes the definition and implementation of a public system of water management organized by the local to the global, having the function of “court” for resolving conflicts and ensuring access for all in sufficient quantity and quality of life.
The challenge posed by the Manifesto of the water is part of the global campaign involving NGOs, public, governments and private enterprises, and that will be carried out in schools until 2006″.
