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Yurimaguas (Peru)
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Even as the quality of available water is constantly diminishing, in some places there is a growing tendency, despite its scarcity, to privatize this resource, turning it into a commodity subject to the laws of the market. Yet access to safe drinkable water is a basic and universal human right, since it is essential to human survival and, as such, is a condition for the exercise of other human rights. Our world has a grave social debt towards the poor who lack access to drinking water, because they are denied the right to a life consistent with their inalienable dignity. (LS, 30)
Resources:
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Press release
](/legacy/d9/d91b26e0f9-PRESS_NOTE_WATER.pdf)
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Data sheet
](/legacy/2d/2d4229fcc0-Water_en.pdf)
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