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‘This is damning evidence of the dangers of handing control of public services to private firms’, The Herald (Scotland), March 27, 2011

Vermont Environmental Court judge reopens Omya permit, Burlington Free Press, March 3, 2011

Join the 2011 Mother Earth 'Turtle Island' Water Walk. The walk departs Machias, Maine on May 7; Gulfport, Mississippi on April 20; Aberdeen, Washington on April 10; Churchill, Manitoba on May 21. The walk will converge at Bad River, Wisconsin on June 14. Find out more at www.motherearthwaterwalk.com

Victory for Kalahari Bushmen as court grants right to waterx, Survivial International, January 27, 2011

Bushmen ‘determined’ as legal battle over water approaches climax, Botswana Gazette, January 14, 2011

Former UN water advisor condemns Botswana’s treatment of Bushmen, Botswana Gazette, August 5, 2010

SPEECH:  “The Human Right to Water and Sanitation” Intervention of the Permanent Representative of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Ambassador Pablo Solon, July 28, 2010

UN declares water, sanitation as human rights, Montreal Gazette, July 28, 2010

Maude Barlow on The World Today, BBC RAdio, July 28, 2010

UN to vote on right to water, Linda Diebel, The Toronto Star, July 27, 2010

Water to be a human right?, Martin Khor, Malaysia Star, July 26, 2010

Access to clean water is most violated human right, Maude Barlow, The Guardian (UK), July 21, 2010

Water as Human Right Threatens to Split World Body, Thalif Deen, IPS, July 19, 2010

The Right to Water, Mikhail Gorbachev, The New York Times, July 16, 2010

A human right Canada rejects: Access to clean water, Maude Barlow and Anil Naidoo, The Toronto Star, July 13, 2010

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