Brazil drought: water rationing alone won’t save Sao Paulo Every inhabited continent, to varying degrees, has areas where there is extremely high water stress. These are areas where more than 80% of the local water supply is withdrawn by businesses, farmers, residents and other consumers every year. These so-called stressed areas are also… Read More
A recent World Resources Institute (WRI) study finds that water supplies across the Middle East will deteriorate over 25 years, threatening economic growth and national security and forcing more people to move to already overcrowded cities. (http://www.wri.org/blog/2015/08/ranking-world%E2%80% 99s-most-water-stressed-countries-2040) The region, is home to over 350 million people, is beginning to recover from a series of… Read More
Human Rights lawyers in North America know that although the societies of Canada and the United States believe that human rights are uniform and fair, they in fact are not. Nowhere is this truer than when it comes to water, climate justice and indigenous people. Poverty is also a driver in the realm of climate… Read More
See e.g., Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., ___ U.S. ___, 133 S.Ct. 2107, 186 L.Ed.2d 124 (2013). (Scalia J. dissenting). (“I join the judgment of the Court, and all of its opinion except Part I–A and some portions of the rest of the opinion going into fine details of molecular biology. I… Read More
The present entry addresses the issue of the sharing or allocation of transboundary water in today’s drought-filled climate impacted era. It is premised on a simple and irrefutable truth: essentially, the leaders of most of the States of the Union and nation-states have failed to put to use that which they learned or should… Read More