Water Rights

🌱 What is the value of water? Water can be seen to have an intrinsic value, a utility value, and a relational value. Following the Nature Future Framework initiated by an expert group of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), water in its many

🌱 How could water management by improved using Indigenous knowledge? An overarching issue in modern water management and Indigenous Peoples’ access to water is “water and sanitation projects not having a sustainable strategy to prevent funding exhaustion”.[i] One way to solve this is to factor in t

🌱 What frameworks can be useful to companies? When approaching the protection of water, companies can, for example, turn to the Nature Future Framework for guidance. The three value perspectives encourage one to think of the intrinsic value of water (nature for nature), the utilitarian value of wat

🌱 Do Indigenous Peoples have access to safe drinking water? According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, “the impact of extractivism on natural resources, compounded with the effects of climate change, has meant many indigenous peoples no longer have access to s