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https://andthewest.stanford.edu/2021/california-water-on-the-market-qa-with-barton-buzz-th…

…ind, water cannot even be valued in economic terms because of its importance to human life and health and to the environment. Beyond the ethical questions of valuing water, the economic value of water and its price generally diverge. Water was the subject of Adam Smith’s famous w…

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/03/06/time-has-come-un-expert-calls-global-recognit…

…itutions of more than 100 nations but has never received recognition as a basic human right. "In many ways, the United Nations needs to try and catch up with where national countries are," said John Knox, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Right and the Environment, at the U.N.…

https://www.housingisahumanright.org/corporate-landlords-and-california-apartment-associat…

…iation Raise Nearly $55 Million to Kill Prop 33 and Pass Prop 34 - Housing Is A Human Right The California Apartment Association, the powerful lobbying group for many of the largest corporate landlords in the country , has raised $54.2 million to kill Proposition 33 and pass Prop…

https://www.housingisahumanright.org/big-real-estate-wanted-to-keep-charging-excessive-ren…

…ts. So It Spent $175 Million to Kill Rent Control in California. - Housing Is A Human Right In 2018 and 2020, Big Real Estate spent a total of $175.4 million to kill rent control ballot measures in California, aggressively protecting its ability to charge higher and higher rents.…

https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2021/11/03/cop-26-un-climate-water-as-a-human-right-marth…

…ater challenges. In 2010, when the U.N. General Assembly voted to recognize the human rights to water and sanitation, the U.S. abstained, arguing that water and sanitation are not human rights. Similarly, when the U.N. Human Rights Council voted earlier this year to recognize the…