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Can pay, will pay — securing a slum water supply for squatters
01.10.1996
Habitat II reaffirmed that water is a human right. But how do people without economic or political muscle secure this right against a background of institutional, legal and financial obstacles? This is the story of one NGO's attempt to act as intermediary between the dispossessed and the authorities — could it disprove the myth that the poor can't pay and won't pay?