The Rights of Rivers

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2021/12/02/rivers-right-to-flow

Indigenous communities and conservationists around the world are challenging the long-held view of water as a human commodity.

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The Rights of Rivers

Indigenous communities and conservationists around the world are challenging the long-held view of water as a human commodity. Can the same approach work in the United States’ arid Southwest?

For the first time, a river is granted official rights and legal personhood in Canada

https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/for-the-first-time-a-river-is-granted-official-rights-and-legal-personhood-in-canada-848414747.html

The Magpie River (Muteshekau-shipu in the Innu language) is an internationally renowned river nearly 300 km long. The river is recognized worldwide for its rapids and for whitewater expeditions, most notably by the prestigious National Geographic magazine, which ranked it among the top ten rivers in the world for whitewater rafting. The river’s protection has received regional consensus, but the plan to declare the river a protected area has been thwarted for years by state-owned Hydro-Québec, due to the waterway’s hydroelectric potential.

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For the first time, a river is granted official rights and legal personhood in Canada

/CNW Telbec/ - The Muteshekau-shipu Alliance today announced the granting of legal personhood to the Magpie River, through the adoption of two parallel...

If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it does it still have freedom of speech?

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