Acqua: Per un modello publico di gestione

Sucessi, lotte e sogni

14 March 2007

Brid Brennan

Olivier Hoedeman

Philipp Terhorst

Satoko Kishimoto

Belén Balanyá

E' incredibile come, nonostante le diversità dei contesti sociali,
giuridici ed ambientali e dei processi attivati dalle diverse campagne,
alcune proposte concrete siano alla fine molto simili tra di loro.

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"E' incredibile come, nonostante le diversità dei contesti sociali, giuridici ed ambientali e dei processi attivati dalle diverse campagne, alcune proposte concrete siano alla fine molto simili tra di loro. Il movimento abruzzese, per esempio, ha elaborato un modello di gestione del servizio per certi versi simile a quello proposto dagli abitanti di Cochabamba per le loro aziende. Evidentemente lo spirito che ci rende simili e quello di construire una comunita che si identifichi in valore condivisi come quello della difesa dell'acqua quale bene comune dell'umanita."

-- Augusto de Sanctis, WWF, curatore della edizione italiana

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March 2007

About the authors

Brid Brennan

Brid has put Transnational Institute at the heart of dynamic international networks from every continent campaigning against trade liberalisation. She is co-founder of the European Solidarity Centre for the Philippines and most recently, RESPECT, a Europe-wide anti-racist network for migrant domestic workers.

Olivier Hoedeman

Olivier Hoedeman (Dutch/Danish, MA Political Science), is the research and campaign co-ordinator at Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), an Brussels-based civil society group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups. CEO co-organises the water project with TNI.

Philipp Terhorst

Philipp Terhorst (PhD at the Water Engineering and Development Centre, WEDC) is an activist researcher and collaborates with the TNI Water Justice Project.

Satoko Kishimoto

She was an environmental activist and active in the youth environmental movement in Japan in the 1990s. She began working with TNI in 2003, at the time of 3rd World Water Forum held in Kyoto, Japan. TNI successfully organized a seminar on Alternatives to Water Privatisation, which was the starting point of the Water Justice Project. In 2005, the Reclaiming Public Water (RPW) Network was created with the contributors to the book 'Reclaiming Public Water'. TNI serves as the coordinating hub of the RPW network and Satoko is the coordinator of the network. The RPW network connects activists, trade unionists, researchers, community activists, and public water operators from around the world, and advocates progressive public water reforms and Public-Public Partnerships as the key elements for solving the global crisis in access to clean water and sanitation.

Recent publications from Water Justice

Remunicipalisation After decades of failed water privatisation, cities like Paris are starting to bring water back into public hands. Download this free 'must-read' book for policy makers and activists looking to democratise water services.	Privatising Europe This working paper and infographic provide an overview of a great ‘fire sale’ of public services and national assets across Europe that is providing profits for a few transnational companies but is often fiercely opposed by its citizens.
Strengthening public water in Africa While both North–South partnerships and SouthSouth Partnerships have strengths and limitations, linking these in networked models is an effective way to mobilise expertise and funding and achieve success.	Agricultural Innovation: Sustaining what agriculture? For what European bio-economy? The Europe 2020 strategy's promotion of resource-efficient technologies and market incentives as the solution for sustainable agriculture is contradicted by experience where techno-fixes and market pressures have increased overall demand on resources.