The Right to Clean Water

Introduction

When making assertions and declarations like everyone has a right to clean water, one should understand the underlying causes for the declaration. In 2010, the United Nations issued Resolution 64/292, which explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation and acknowledged that clean drinking water and sanitation are essential to the realisation of all human rights (Water for Life). On the face of it, the resolution is a positive affirmation of every human beings right to have his most basic necessities provided for. However, under the surface one can see several other geopolitical factors that caused this resolution to be adopted. The resolution is essentially an excuse for the international community to regulate and intervene all over the world in order to protect those in need. When one examines the causes of an argument, one sees that there is often more than meets the eye going on. This paper will argue that the right to clean water is caused by a desire on the part of the Western international community to gain control and influence over underdeveloped nations. It will first discuss less important causes, then major causes. It will also present and refute opposing arguments.

Evidence

First Point: Clean Water Security is a Pretext for Interventionism

The UN was created in 1945 in order to bring to security to Europe and the wider world after WW2. It also sought to promote human rights, social progress and higher living standards (History of UN). One right that it has promoted and affirmed is the right of all people to have access to clean water. This means that no matter where one liveseven if it is in the desertthat person has a right to clean water and the international community has a social responsibility to ensure that this right is met. Since the time of the resolution on the right to clean water, the UN has gone on to embrace climate justice and to promote regime compliance. By emphasizing the need for water to support all lifesomething no one is going to denythe UN opens the door for international powers to exert more control and regulations over other states so as to enforce regime compliance for the good of the people.

It is however merely a pretext for international meddling in underdeveloped states. One should ask, for instance, why the US should be concerned that Syria (which it has bombed and attacked and whose infrastructure it has helped to destroy by supporting rebels there) lacks access to clean waterespecially when its own cities, like Flint, Michigan, have polluted water coming out of the taps (Denchak)? The reason is that it all links in with the idea of climate justice and things like the Paris Accords, which have set high standards for revamping the entire global infrastructure in order to save the environment. Why? Again, there are underlying causes at play: whenever new infrastructure is needed, there are huge amounts of money...

The push for climate justice is actually a push from behind the scenes by big money interests to capitalize on fear propaganda and authoritarian pronouncements that everyone must be regulated by the international order to achieve regime compliance (Slate).

When most people talk about everyone having a right to clean water they are not thinking about these underlying causes: they are only thinking that water is necessary and good and people should have it. But for thousands of years of human history, people have generally understood that. It is why civilizations have grown up around and near water. Saying that water is good and necessary is just common...

…need from the people at home to go and invade, intervene, regulate, and dominate in a neo-colonial style of global geopolitical maneuvering.

And if they do not get that support, look at what happens: protests in London, Paris, Italy, cities across the USall in the face of draconian policies and laws applied by unelected officials who think they know what is best for the people in COVID times. Just remember: if they can give a people entitlements, they can take them away just like that. 2020 showed exactly how little they care for peoples rights. Thus, no one should buy the argument that anyone has a rightan entitlementto anything. Its double-speak; an illusionused to justify power grabs and interventions that support the big moneyed interests around the globe; and they use their control of the media and Big Tech to support their claims. That is why Google will not allow anyone who attacks their agenda to gain traction on the Web. Google was made into a monopoly for that reason alone.

Conclusion

Everyone needs clean water. No one in his right mind would deny that. But to say that everyone has a right to clean water is something else entirely. It is to say that everyone is entitled to have this, no matter who they are and where they areand the powers that be will make sure to take control of the global water supply and ration it out accordingly. One must look at the cause for such an argument. What is the underlying reason the UN would put out such a resolution? The answer is simple: the zero sum game of geopolitics is an ongoing affair; neo-colonialism still exists, and by gaining control of the worlds resources, the major players position themselves to dominate for years to come. It is not at all…