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If rivers had legal rights, sewage scandals would be much harder to ignore

By Philippe Cullet, Professor of International and Environmental Law, SOAS, University of London

Shifting the law to treat rivers as legal ‘persons’ rather than economic assets could offer a radical new way to hold polluters to account.

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