Chitrakoot Water Declaration

1. Water is the basis of life: it is the gift of nature; it belongs to all living beings on earth.
2. Water is not private property. It is a common resource for the sustenance of all.
3. Water is the fundamental right. It has to be conserved, protected and managed. It is our fundamental obligation to prevent water scarcity and pollution and to preserve it for generations.
4. Water is not a commodity. We should resist all criminal attempts to marketwise, privatize and corporatise water. Only through these means we can ensure the fundamental and inalienable right to water for the people all over the world.
5. The water policy should be formulated on the basis of this outlook.
6. The right to conserve, use and manage water is fully vested with the local community. This is the very basis of water democracy. Any attempt to reduced or deny this right is a crime.
7. The production and marketing of the poisonous products of Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola and other corporates lead to total destruction and pollution and it also endangers the very existence of local communities.
8. The resistance that has came up in Chitrakoot and in various part of the world is the symbol of our valiant struggle against the devilish corporate gangs who pirate of our water.
9. We, who are in the battlefield in full solidarity with the Adivasis who have put up resistance against the tortures of the horrid commercial forces in Chitrakoot, exhort the people all over the world to boycott the products of Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola.