After more than a decade of grassroots organizing and lobbying, the global water justice movement achieved a significant victory when the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to affirm "the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights."
Turkish civil society organizations protested peacefully outside the 5th World Water Forum against water privatization and were met with repression.
The Our Water Commons network recently published a report summarizing 22 commons-based water strategies from around the globe. At this moment as the economic, climate and water resource threats loom large, it is critical that we learn from and build on successful community-based strategies.
Case Study 1: The Push for a UN Covenant on the Right to Water
Case Study 7: The Acequia System of Irrigation and Water Management
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