Water for all: Activists renew agitation to keep resource out of corporate hands, challenge privatisation drive in Africa, others

For a struggling family, the money spent buying water may be the difference between putting food on the table and going hungry. For millions of poor households across Africa, access to this essential resource is increasingly a daily struggle, forcing families to pay for water even when public supply is unreliable.
But African civil society organisations, labour unions and water rights campaigners say no one should be denied water because of poverty, insisting that governments must guarantee free access to a basic quantity of safe water for essential domestic needs.
 
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Their demand comes amid growing concerns over water privatisation, rising tariffs and the introductio...