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Nature 452, 288 (20 March 2008) | doi:10.1038/452288a; Published online 19 March 2008

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Film: Water policy in the can

Emma Marris1

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Many people regard access to safe drinking water as a human right. Yet some fear that the switch from state-run utilities to private ownership will lead to a world where water flows towards the rich as surely as it flows downhill, and where the poor, especially in the developing world, will be left thirsty.