This page links you to a website that start to explain Africa’s largest water project, which with no dobt has affected millions of people around the world. The Orange River begins in Lesotho for the African people and seperates South Africa and Namibia then returning to the ocean. The Four Dams project has since then dried the land, covered much of South Africa’s farmland (and they don’t have much), and cost the state 75% of its yearly budget to but back the water, to name just a few of the exterme damages to the country. http://internationalrivers.org/en/africa/brief-history-africa-s-largerst-water-project While back home in the United States the Indeginous poeples have always been tied directly to the land and its water. The International Indian Treaty Council outlines this relationship. Indeginious people rely on the water for traditional subsistance economies, physical health, sanitation, and for the survival of their own peoples. On November 26, 2006 the United Nations Human Rights Comission recognized the right to water as a human right. This is extremely huge for Indeginous peoples since corporations have only had to follow weak environmental laws. www.wsdp.org/water_is_life.html