Former UN Water Advisor Condemns Botswana's Treatment Of Bushmen

Former UN Water Advisor Condemns Botswana's Treatment Of Bushmen   Maude Barlow, former UN advisor on water, ‘Alternative Nobel’ prize winner and founder of the Blue Planet Project, has condemned the Botswana government’s failure to allow Bushmen to access water.   Barlow’s remarks come a week after the United Nations declared water a fundamental human right, and two weeks after a Botswana High Court judge ruled that the Kalahari Bushmen cannot access a water borehole on their lands.   ‘Last...

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