Boycotts are in order...
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Water is not a human right. It being necessary for our survival does not make it a right. Come on now.
Depends on if you use the left’s definition or not. They would argue your right to water means you can steal it from anyone because you need it or that the government should give it to you for free. But if you think of it like the second amendment, your right to water just means the government can’t restrict your access to it, whether that’s cutting off your supply for not complying with something or banning rain water collection.
Why would we be using the left's definition here? That's sort of my point. This meme wouldn't be out of place on /r/politics on reddit. The right you describe here about access to water (or food, healthcare, etc.) is just the right to property; which itself is derived from the right of self-ownership.
Hard to have a life without water. Also, its nothing like healthcare because healthcare doesnt literally fall from the sky.
I agree. You have the right to water if you own land with water rights or you create or buy water.
...or collect it as its falling from the sky.
If you want to open your mouth and point your head at the sky and wait for rain, I suppose that is your right. But if you want me to collect it and supply you with endless plastic bottles of drinkable rain water every day of the year, you are going to have to pay me.
There are currently communities in the US barred from collecting rain water because no right to water exists.
Mineral and water rights are an interesting legal concept. Of course, once you have purchased property that has already had them "removed" it is impossible to get them back.
By the same token, water rights can be purchased and there are still properties that have water rights intact and included with title. So if it is important to someone, they can find a property where collecting rainwater is an included right.
They don't drink water. They drink Adrenochrome, remember?