Is Water a 'Right' or a 'Need'?: Day 7 at the World Water Forum

Istanbul hosted the 5th World Water Forum along the banks of the Golden Horn. "We are all connected by our need for water. We all fear thirst, and we all fear that our children will be thirsty," Michael Blackstock, a naturalist of First Nations descent, said Friday at a session on water and culture. "But if you asked a hydrologist and a fisherman, they would define 'water' very differently." After a week of discussing the topic from seemingly every possible angle, that definition was still very much contested as the