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===Court case, water and other rights===
The right to water was considered in the [[Inter-American Court of Human Rights]] case of the ''Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous Community v. Paraguay''.<ref name=para>[http://www.escr-net.org/sites/default/files/Judgment%2C%20Case%20of%20the%20Sawhoyamaxa%20Indigenous%20Community%20v.%20Paraguay.pdf ''Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous Community v. Paraguay''] (Inter-American Court of Human Rights, 29 March 2006).</ref> The issues involved the states failure to acknowledge indigenous communities' property rights over ancestral lands.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}  In 1991, the state removed the indigenous Sawhoyamaxa community from the land resulting in their loss of access to water, food, schooling and health services.<ref name=para/> This fell within the scope of the [[American Convention on Human Rights]]; article 4, encroaching the right to life.<ref>{{cite web |title=American Convention on Human Rights  |publisher=Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |date=22 November 1969 |url=http://www.cidh.org/Basicos/English/Basic3.American%20Convention.htm |access-date=26 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130618195529/http://www.cidh.org/Basicos/English/Basic3.American%20Convention.htm |archive-date=18 June 2013 }}</ref>  Water is included in this right, as part of access to land. The courts required the lands to be returned, compensation provided, and basic goods and services to be implemented, while the community was in the process of having their lands returned.<ref>[http://www.escr-net.org/node/365163f], International Network for Economic, Social & Cultural Rights, Case of Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous Community v. Paraguay.</ref>