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Freshwater Collaborative Water Policy Network Meeting: Water, Water Everywhere But Not a Drop to Drink
The Center for Water Policy hosted this Freshwater Collaborative Water Policy Network Meeting, moderated by Water Policy Specialist Anna Watson. This event featured a presentation from Professor Sumudu Atapattu, Teaching Professor and Director of the Global Legal Studies Center at UW Law School on her research titled 鈥淲ater, Water Everywhere But Not a Drop to Drink: Access to Water as a Human Right.鈥�
In this talk to the Freshwater Collaborative Water Policy Network, Prof. Atapattu examined the global water crisis and the emergence of a legally recognized human right to water under international human rights law. She also unpacked the scope of that right and consider its implication for the U.S. in the face of climate impacts.
Watch the recording .