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  1. Nov 2022
    1. That is, US consumers purchase about 28 billion bottles of water every year

      Water is a business product

    2. About 90 percent of the world’s freshwater stocks currently remain under public control
    1. The claim to a human right to water rests on shaky legal ground: no explicit right to water is expressed in the most relevant international treaty,4 although the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights5 issued a comment in 2002, asserting that every person has a right to “sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible, and affordable water”

      Water is not considered to be a human right like food, shelter, and dignity are. Evidence: no explicit right to water is expressed in the international treaty