In Detroit, City-backed Water Shut-offs ‘Contrary to Human Rights,’ Say UN Experts

DETROIT–(ENEWSPF)–20 October 2014 – The city of Detroit must restore access to water for its citizens who remain unable to pay their bills, two United Nations experts urged today, adding that a failure to do so would be a violation of the most basic human rights of those residents.

Catarina de Albuquerque, the Special Rapporteur on the human right to water and sanitation, and Leilani Farha, the Special Rapporteur on the…