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Email this pageWILPF Supports California Water Legislation
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
United States Section
11 Arlington St. Boston, MA 02116
Tel: 617-266-0999 Email: web(at)wilpf.org
Website: www.wilpf.org
The Honorable Jared Huffman
Chair, Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife
State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814
April 21, 2009
RE: Support AB 1242 (Ruskin-Jones)
Dear Assemblymember Huffman:
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. Section, wholeheartedly supports AB 1242 that would amend the California State Water Code to read that "every human being has the right to clean and accessible water on an equitable basis".
People's Water Forum Declaration
March 22, 2009
Instanbul, Turkey
On World Water Day, the People’s Water Forum Declaration was released declaring water a human right and a central component of the global commons. The statement continues: we reject all forms of privatization and declare that the management and control of water must be public, social, cooperative, participatory, equitable, and not for profit.
When Water Becomes a Political Challenge:
Uruguay moves for a constitutional amendment declaring water to be a public right
Indigenous Environmental Network Declaration
TLATOKAN ATLAHUAK DECLARATION
Declaration of the Indigenous Peoples Parallel Forum of the 4th World Water Forum
Mexico City, Mexico March 17-18, 2006
http://www.ienearth.org/declaration_tlatokan_atlahuak_en.doc
4th WORLD WATER FORUM
WORLD ENCOUNTER OF WATER LEGISLATORS
MEXICO DECLARATION
