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Is the supplying of water a basic human right?
If you consider all the things the gov't spends our money on (defense, roads, bridges, justice system etc), should one of them be a simple necessity?
It’s a basic human right: water. But could the United Nations soon help the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department provide the service to struggling customers?
And while Garner says water is “a God-given right,” she says there is a cost to move water from the water resource to the customer and that the infrastructure costs money.
Nearly Half Of Detroit Water Customers Can’t Pay Their Bill « CBS Detroit
You can install a well or some sort of tank that holds large qunaitites of water or rent from a well.
Uhhh.. You do realize many non-socialists hold this same idea right? Its not strictly a socialist idea.
What about it.
Oh stop trying to socialize everything. Utilities cost something to disperse, the recipients should pay that bill. Now go away.Is the supplying of water a basic human right?
Is the supplying of water a basic human right?
If you consider all the things the gov't spends our money on (defense, roads, bridges, justice system etc), should one of them be a simple necessity?
Nearly Half Of Detroit Water Customers Can’t Pay Their Bill « CBS Detroit
What? Equal cost / equal misery? On the market spectrum, that's definitely to one side, and it's not the free market side.
Of course we should pay for water, delivering safe clean water is not cheap.
Is the supplying of water a basic human right?
If you consider all the things the gov't spends our money on (defense, roads, bridges, justice system etc), should one of them be a simple necessity?
Nearly Half Of Detroit Water Customers Can’t Pay Their Bill « CBS Detroit
Is the supplying of water a basic human right?
If you consider all the things the gov't spends our money on (defense, roads, bridges, justice system etc), should one of them be a simple necessity?
Nearly Half Of Detroit Water Customers Can’t Pay Their Bill « CBS Detroit
Take for instance not only the rainwater but aquafiers. Some places have demanded residents to fill their wells and link up to the main and pay for water. That company has no more right to that aquafier than the individuals sinking there wells but the coercive force of government actively denies them of what they've procured for themselves.
And when "the government" pays, who do you think pays?
Everyone but you??
Yeah, except it's not and never has been, anywhere on the globe.
Not everything in this country is revolved around the free market.
While I realize it may be impractical or impossible to implement, I'd be ok with making drinking water a fundamental human right.
For all the nay-sayers, we spend TRILLIONS of dollars on ridiculous wars and give BILLIONS of dollars to foreign countries as aid, yet we can't afford the measly sum it would cost to subsidize drinking water?
Of course not. That's why we have problems.
Of course we should pay for water, delivering safe clean water is not cheap.
What would satisfy such a right? Does someone have to refill the water bottle and bring it to you? Stick the straw in your mouth?
Drinking water doesn't need to be regarded as a fundamental human right any more than air does. We need it desperately, but it's ubiquitous enough that there's no point in declaring it a positive right. As a test, walk into any public place and claim to need a drink of water. See if you have trouble accessing some.
We already do subsidize it. Government departments all over the country spend a ton of money annually on water collection and treatment as well as utility infrastructure maintenance and improvements to deliver it to where people live, whereafter we wash stuff with it and pour it down the drain, irrigate with it, and urinate and defecate into it.
No, water, along with the other basic needs to survive, should be a right. It's not that foreign of a concept.
In addition, to South Africa declaring housing as a constitutional right, as TheDemSocialist mentioned, Utah is essentially eliminating homelessness and guaranteeing housing as a right.
Utah is Ending Homelessness by Giving People Homes | NationofChange
Is the supplying of water a basic human right?
If you consider all the things the gov't spends our money on (defense, roads, bridges, justice system etc), should one of them be a simple necessity?
Nearly Half Of Detroit Water Customers Can’t Pay Their Bill « CBS Detroit
No, water, along with the other basic needs to survive, should be a right. It's not that foreign of a concept.
In addition, to South Africa declaring housing as a constitutional right, as TheDemSocialist mentioned, Utah is essentially eliminating homelessness and guaranteeing housing as a right.
Utah is Ending Homelessness by Giving People Homes | NationofChange
The free market has many downfalls.
This is correct. If you go to China everyone you know will say, 'don't drink the water.' And when you are there you will see the thermos of boiled water in every window sill. You will also see them drinking bottled water, and you will be encouraged to do so as well. We tend to think only other countries have problems with contaminated water. But where does your water come from? A well? A water district? Many water districts have processing plants that just recycle waste water from the sewer system back into the water it sells to you. Some get water from rivers which are very dirty. And others use wells, but the water is not clean enough by US standards, and so it has to be chlorinated. Our rivers, streams, lakes are contaminated, so I ask: Where in the US can you get potable water that is not the end product of human labor which costs money? Maybe somewhere there is a well that is not contaminated, but even here in rural KY, that is rare. I know of one that was just outside the water district that was so contaminated the health department mandated the water district to run lines to that house.
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