#humanrighttowater

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#TBT to a 2011 rally at the California State House in support of the human right to water. The best part? In 2012, California passed the landmark Human Right to Water Act!

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Great video from ACLU of Michigan that explains why water assistance isn't cutting it in Detroit. Read more about the need for water affordability in our interview with Maureen Taylor of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization (MWRO), UUSC partner, at uusc.org/waterinterview.

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This is a spiritual fight to me. I can’t imagine what kind of a person, what kind of a community, what kind of a legislature, what kind of a government, what kind of a country would go to that length to punish people because they are poor by saying that what you need to continue your life and cleanliness, we’re gonna take it away.

Maureen Taylor, state chair of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization, a UUSC partner in advancing the human right to water.

Check out her thoughts on water affordability.

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Maureen Taylor, state chair of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization, a UUSC partner in advancing the human right to water, speaks at the International Social Movements Gathering for Affordable Water and Housing in Detroit, Mich., in May.

Read an interview with her.

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No one has suggested that water be free. Based on the economic decline that Detroit and surrounding communities have been going through since the Great Recession, we have been trying to structure something called the water affordability plan. We’re not talking about people not paying; we’re talking about people paying water bills based on their income.

Maureen Taylor, state chair of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization, a UUSC partner

Want to know what else she has to say? Check it out.

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BBC Our World India's Water Crisis

India receives adequate rainfall for its billion-plus population, but the country is facing a crisis - this is why