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	<title>State of the Planet &#187; Human Rights</title>
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		<title>A Human Right to Water &#8211; Can it Make a Difference?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/07/27/a-human-right-to-water-can-it-make-a-difference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eve Warburton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Earth Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty / Economic Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Pricing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=16389</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img width="150" height="110" src="http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/20100323003219802-150x110.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Neighborhood activists gathered in Central Jakarta to call for clean and accessible water on World Water Day 2011" />Despite the UN’s 2010 resolution on the human right to water, debate continues over how useful a rights approach really is. Even if we identify water as a human right, where the state is the principal duty-bearer, will it improve access to water for communities in need?]]></description>
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		<title>A Right, a Need, or an Economic Good? Debating our Relationship to Water</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/06/06/a-right-a-need-or-an-economic-good-debating-our-relationship-to-water/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/06/06/a-right-a-need-or-an-economic-good-debating-our-relationship-to-water/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eve Warburton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Pricing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[World Water Day]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=15148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<img width="150" height="110" src="http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/h20-150x110.gif" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Photo: Six Cents Press" />Debates about the human right to water, and the role of the state or private companies in ensuring access, illustrate that water provision is anything but apolitical.]]></description>
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		<title>The Economist: Special Report on Water, a primer for the water crisis</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/05/21/the-economist-special-report-on-water-a-primer-for-the-water-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/05/21/the-economist-special-report-on-water-a-primer-for-the-water-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 16:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Apland Hitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Water Conflicts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water matters]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Water Quality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Scarcity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Wars]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/water/?p=2798</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Economist has released a Special Report on Water, dated May 22nd, 2010, written by John Grimond.  The 18 page report contains 9 short but substantial articles giving an overview of global water issues.]]></description>
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		<title>The Water Conflict in Ecuador</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/05/14/the-water-conflict-in-ecuador/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/05/14/the-water-conflict-in-ecuador/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 20:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Apland Hitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developing Countries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecuador]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Conflicts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water matters]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/water/?p=2730</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last year, the government has been working on passing a new water bill, the Hydraulic Resources Law, which would, as I understand it, allow the concessions to stand, codify privatization of water rights and centralize decision-making at the state level, possibly further excluding traditional local water-management structures from the process.  In the last weeks an estimated 10,000 protesters have descended on the capitol city of Quito, trying to stop the bill as it comes before the national assembly.]]></description>
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		<title>Water Human Rights: Pollution</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/12/03/water-human-rights-pollution/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/12/03/water-human-rights-pollution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Vettel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saltwater infiltration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wastewater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Scarcity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[west virginia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/water/?p=1539</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my previous blogs, I have been discussing different ways in which the human right to clean water is violated. I have already discussed how economic scarcity occurs, and this week I will be discussing pollution of water. Pollution issues are largely leading to contamination of the water supplies around the world.  There are countless [<a href="http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/12/03/water-human-rights-pollution/">...</a>]]]></description>
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		<title>Water Human Rights: Physical Scarcity</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/11/10/water-human-rights-physical-scarcity/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/11/10/water-human-rights-physical-scarcity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Vettel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[groundwater depletion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Physical Scarcity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Scarcity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/water/?p=1530</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my previous blogs, I defended water as a human right and began the discussion of ways in which the human right to clean water is violated. I have already discussed how economic scarcity occurs, and this week I will be discussing physical scarcity of water. Physical scarcity is the issue that the water just [<a href="http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/11/10/water-human-rights-physical-scarcity/">...</a>]]]></description>
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		<title>Water Human Rights: Economic Scarcity</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/10/29/water-human-rights-economic-scarcity/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/10/29/water-human-rights-economic-scarcity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Vettel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developing Countries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Scarcity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Millenium Declaration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Scarcity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/water/?p=1505</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my earlier blog, I began arguing that water is a human right, and that the extreme lack of potable water is a significant human rights violation.  The scale of the human rights violation of the right to drinking water is on an extremely large scale. The largest occurrence of this right being violated is [<a href="http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/10/29/water-human-rights-economic-scarcity/">...</a>]]]></description>
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		<title>Water – a Human Right?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/10/22/water-%e2%80%93-a-human-right/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/10/22/water-%e2%80%93-a-human-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Vettel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water matters]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/water/?p=1362</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the world, over one billion people live without access to clean water resources. These people have extremely large death rates to completely preventable, waterborne illnesses. It is estimated that over two million people die every year from preventable waterborne diseases, and a large percentage of those people are children under the age of five. [<a href="http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/10/22/water-%e2%80%93-a-human-right/">...</a>]]]></description>
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