Expressing the sense of the Congress with regard to the world's freshwater resources.

12/6/2007--Introduced.
Asserts that:
(1) water management priorities should reflect the goals of safeguarding and sustaining water resources;
(2) U.S. executive directors of international financial institutions should not approve loans that require increased cost recovery or water privatization or public-private partnerships that would result in significant increases in consumer water fees or in other ways restrict affordable access to water; and
(3) federal policies should ensure that sources of water pollution are adequately regulated and those responsible held accountable for the pollution they cause.
Affirms:
(1) that water should not be treated as a private commodity where this would limit or deny public access to freshwater resources;
(2) that Congress firmly commits itself to meet the Millennium Development Goals; and
(3) that access to international loans and debt reduction programs should not be conditioned on implementing increased cost recovery policies when those policies would result in significantly increased water rates that reduce access to safe drinking water and sanitation.
Deems that federal funding not be conditioned on the consideration of forms of privatization that would restrict affordable access to water.
Upholds the principle that governments should engage all members of society in participation in overseeing decisions concerning water conservation and management.
Recommends that trade agreements should not include conditions related to the provision of water for human use that would result in reduced access to water.
Recognizes:
(1) the need to fully fund the Water for the Poor Act of 2007; and
(2) that sufficient and safe drinking water is a precondition for the realization of all other human rights.


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Sponsor

• Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D, IL-9]
• and 3 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Frederick Boucher [D, VA-9]
  • Rep. Alcee Hastings [D, FL-23]
  • Rep. James McGovern [D, MA-3]
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Committees

• House Financial Services
• 3 more
  • House Ways and Means
  • House Ways and Means
  • House Foreign Affairs
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Amendments

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Amendments to H.Con.Res.266

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Introduced		Voted on by House
December 06, 2007

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• Dec 10, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
• Dec 06, 2007: Referred to House Financial Services
• Dec 06, 2007: Referred to House Ways and Means
• Dec 06, 2007: Referred to House Foreign Affairs
• Dec 06, 2007: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
• Introduced on Dec 06, 2007.

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• Water use
• Water treatment plants
• Water supply
• Water rights
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• Water resources
• Water rates
• Water pollution control
• Water pollution
• Water conservation
• Water allocation (Policy)
• Waste water treatment
• Trade agreements
• Trade
• Solid wastes
• Refuse and refuse disposal
• Public-private partnerships
• Public contracts
• Privatization
• Potable water
• Petroleum refineries
• Natural resources
• Liability for environmental damages
• Law
• International finance
• Infrastructure
• Industrial pollution
• Government regulation
• Freshwater resources conservation
• Foreign loans
• Foreign aid
• Federal aid to water resources development
• Executive departments
• Environmental protection
• Environmental law enforcement
• Energy
• Development credit institutions
• Developing countries
• Debt relief
• Criminal justice
• Business
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• Agriculture
• Agricultural pollution
• Foreign policy

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