Document Type
Article
Disciplines
International Law
Abstract
It has been predicted that by 2025, two-thirds of the world's population will not have sufficient access to fresh drinking water to meet their basic needs.' Pollution, global climate change, unsustainable use, and a burgeoning worldwide population have compromised the security of existing water resources.2 Scarcity and inaccessibility are not merely specters of the future. Presently, 1.1 billion people lack clean drinking water, 2.4 billion are without water sanitation services,' and water shortages currently plague 450 million people in 29 countries.' In August of 2002, delegates to the United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development pledged to reduce the number of people without access to clean water by fifty percent by the year 2015, but stressed that cooperation and technology transfer was needed to meet this goal.' Clearly, the international community will have to work together to overcome the substantial cultural, financial, regulatory and operational challenges of the world's water crisis. With no consensus on how to best mitigate this crisis, there is concern that a global market economy for water is on the horizon.
Recommended Citation
Nardone, Rona, "Like Oil and Water: The WTO and the World's Water Resources" (2003). Connecticut Journal of International Law. 402.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/cjil/402
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