Public Water for All - Symposium on Improving Public Water Delivery

Public Water for All - Symposium on Improving Public Water Delivery
Mexico City, 15 March 2006

• Download the report from the symposium [PDF]
  The report summarises the speeches and gives an overview of the debates that took place
  Spanish version
• Appendix to the report [PDF] - observations on the symposium and a summary of the results of the questionnaire that was circulated among the participants, written by Philipp Terhorst

TNI and CEO, together with other civil society groups, hosted an international symposium on Improving Public Water Delivery to discuss ways to improve public water delivery. Held on the eve of the Fourth World Water Forum, the symposium was a pre-event of International Forum in Defense of Water, aiming to bring together public water managers, civil society activists, academics and unionists from around the world.

See the programme in English and Spanish [PDF documdent]

See the discussion paper prepared for the forum:

• Public Water for All. The Role of Public-Public Partnerships [PDF document]
  A ‘Reclaiming Public Water’ discussion paper, TNI/Corporate Europe Observatory, March 2006
• Agua pública para todos: El papel de las asociaciones entre organismos públicos [PDF document]
  Documento de debate de ‘Por un modelo público de agua’, Marzo de 2006

Press release, 10 March 2006 Civil society calls for public water delivery as World Water Forum approaches

Comunicado de prensa, 10 de marzo de 2006 La sociedad civil demanda modelos públicos para el suministro de agua en vísperas del Foro Mundial del Agua

Resources for the symposium on Improving Public Water Delivery

• See background papers
• Presentation documents from speakers at the symposium

International Forum in Defense of Water [17-19 March 2006]

IFDW is a parallel event to the Forth World Water Forum, organized by the Mexican civil society coalition COMDA.

Download the programme of the IFDW in Spanish and English

• Joint Declaration of the Movements in Defense of Water Mexico City, 19 March 2006
• Declaración conjunta de los Movimientos en Defensa del Agua
  Ciudad de México, 19 marzo 2006

Response from Civil Society to the 4th World Water Forum Ministerial declaration [PDF document]

• World Water Forum fails, say civil society groups 22 March 2006
• Grupos de la sociedad civil afirman que el Foro Mundial del Agua ha fracasado 22 March 2006 [Spanish]

Press coverage

Find out more on alternatives to the IV WWF

• World Development
  Movement (WDM)
• Friend of the Earth
  International (FOEI)

Forth World Water Forum in Mexico City

The Fourth World Water Forum (IV WWF), a main international event on water, was organised in Mexico City on 16-22 March. The forum has been criticised for being strongly business-dominated, for seeking to influence water policy making at a global level in a pro-privatisation direction, and for excluding wider participation from civil society. Responding to this reality, many of civil society networks chose to organise activities as listed below in parallel to the IV WWF.