The International Human Right to Water

Got Water? is a campaign to ensure sustainable access to safe, sufficient, affordable water to every person by enshrining the human right to water into law — internationally, nationally, statewide, and locally. Learn more about our campaign.

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.

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