Get involved
The Right to Water campaign
The Friends of the Right to Water is promoting a two-tiered strategy. We are encouraging our international partners to work with the UN to adopt a convention or treaty on the right to water. We are also encouraging local groups to push their governments and courts to recognize the human right to water. This ‘inside-outside’ strategy will be the most effective way to accomplish our goals.
The Uruguay constitutional amendment is a good example of how a grassroots initiative can press for and secure our rights. Where the rules exist for similar initiatives, we use them, where they don’t we must find other ways to ensure the right to water. In some countries the strategy may need to be more localized, or focus on the court system.
On local, national and international levels, we must assert our right to water and demand recognition in the courts and parliaments of the world.
We are encouraging like-minded organizations to join us. The adoption of a strong treaty or convention on water is crucial to the international water justice campaign. Pro-privatization groups are already developing their own water convention. The time to act is now!
To get involved in the Right to Water Campaign:
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SEND A LETTER to Prime Minister Harper, demanding that the Canadian government support the right to water at the United Nations.
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Sign the Endorsement Statement.
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Contact us at 1-800-387-7177 or email blueplanet@canadians.org to see how you can get involved.
Making a Donation to the Blue Planet Project
- You can make the right to water a reality! Please consider a donation to support the Blue Planet Project. You can do so by writing a cheque made payable to: The Council of Canadians. In the MEMO line, please specify: Donation to the Blue Planet Project
You can mail your cheque to:
The Council of Canadians
ATTN: Blue Planet Project
700-170 Laurier Ave. West
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 5V5 CANADA
