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March 23, 2010

Bolivia Proposes Declaring Potable Water a Universal Right
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The United Nations marked World Water Day on Monday with a warning that
unsafe water kills more people than wars and all other forms of violence
combined. According to the World Health Organization, 1.5 million people
under the age of five die every year from water-related diseases. Also
marking World Water Day, Bolivian President Evo Morales called on the UN
to declare access to safe water a universal human right.

Bolivian President Evo Morales: “The United Nations, in its sixty-fifth
session, should approve the following: declare access to potable water
and basic sanitation a universal human right so that states and the UN
move forward in respect to this right and use progressive national and
international measures to universally apply it.”



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