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Nestle and the human right to water [part 1]

April 26, 2013 - 20:01 -- Editor

There is a video doing the rounds at the moment of Nestle Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe declaring that water isn’t a human right and arguing that the best way to ensure fair distribution is through privatisation and assigning a market value to water. To my mind the most interesting thing about this statement is not that it was made by Nestle, but that it has provoked such a furore.