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The International Human Right to Water
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UUSC's Environmental Justice Program seeks to promote and defend the human right to water. To achieve this goal, UUSC supports civil society and grassroots groups in the struggle against water privatization and depletion and promotes citizen involvement in the utilization and management of water as a common resource. UUSC works to influence government policies related to environmental justice and mobilize activists to hold government, agencies, and socioeconomic elites accountable for water-rights violations.
Recently, our partners in Ecuador, South Africa, and Tanzania have won amazing victories in the defense and promotion of the human right to water.
Through its Color of Water Project, our partner Massachusetts Global Action, in Boston, Mass., has done extensive research on the human right to water, including challenging the disproportionate number of water shutoffs in low-income areas of the city.
Featured stories about the international human right to water
 Evalyne Wanyana, national
coordinator of the Kenya National Alliance of Street Vendors and Informal
Traders, details the days leading up to and following the approval of a new
constitution that promises a brighter future for Kenyans.
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 On July 28, 2010, the United Nations adopted a nonbinding resolution that recognizes
the human right to water and sanitation. Passed by a vote of 122 to 0 with 41 countries abstaining, the resolution is a historic step towards water justice.
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