Legislative Action

Governments play a critical role in managing water resources within their jurisdictions. Their actions either affirm or deny peoples’ fundamental rights to water. They create the regulations that control how water is used, processed, delivered, bought, and sold.

Governments around the world are turning their backs on these responsibilities. The peoples’ right to manage and protect water is slowly eroding, and companies who profit off water are making more and more decisions. In North America, bottled water is defined as a ‘product’, freely traded and largely unregulated in comparison with publicly delivered water.

Water activists around the world are fighting for policies and laws that among other objectives put water back in the public’s hands, stop the exports of bulk water, and reign-in the bottled water industry.