• 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.
  • One million in Europe sign for water as a public servic...

    ‘Water is a Human Right’ has made history as being the first European Citizen Initiative to have collected over one million signatures.
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    Putting Water Back into Public Hands

    An inspiring video animation about how cities are reversing water privatisation to regain public control.
  • Reclaiming Public Water book

    The groundbreaking book on how reformed public water services can achieve the goal of delivering water for all. Includes additional new chapters.
  • 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.

Water Justice project, run jointly by TNI and Corporate European Observatory is engaged in the work of building viable alternatives to water privatisation, focused on how to reform public water systems in order to make the human right to water a reality for everyone. Read more about this project

Articles

Networking against Fracking

Global networking is key to winning battle against fracking, say activists at WSF.
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Colombia: privatización del agua

Danilo Urrea es activista de Censat Agua Viva

Firenze 10+10

European Social Forum meets at time of austerity politics to strategise on how to build an effective pan-European response by Europe's social movements. 

Publications

The Global Water Grab: A Primer

Water grabbing refers to situations where powerful actors take control of valuable water resources  for their own benefit, depriving local communities whose livelihoods often depend on these resources and ecosystems.

Strengthening public water in Africa

Samir Bensaid
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.
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Agricultural Innovation: Sustaining what agriculture? For what European bio-economy?

Les Levidow, S.M.Oreszczyn et al.
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.

Events

March 2013

World Social Forum 2013

Defending and Celebrating People’s ‘Dignity’
November 2012

Firenze 10+10

The Firenze 10+10, will bring together a broad range of social movements and activists from across Europe to forge a common response to the unprecedented crisis we are facing.
March 2012

Book Launch: Alternatives to privatisation – public services for the future

Those who oppose the privatisation of public services are often confronted with the objection of 'no alternative'. However over the last decade, initiatives around the world to democratise public services and ensure equal access for all, resulted in interesting successful alternatives in practice. Two new books, co-published by TNI and the Municipal Services Project, show a wide range of alternatives in the form of successful, non-commercialised public services in health, water, sanitation and electricity.

News

Mirjam van Reisen benoemd tot nieuw bestuurslid Adviesraad Internationale Vraagstukken (AIV)

3 May 2013
Net voor haar abdicatie heeft Koningin Beatrix Prof. Dr. Mirjam van Reisen beëdigd als bestuurslid Adviesraad Internationale Vraagstukken (AIV) en daarbinnen voorzitter Commissie Ontwikkelingssamenwerking; het instituut dat de regering en de Staten-Generaal adviseert over het buitenlandse beleid.

Our Democracy instead of Their Austerity

13 November 2012
We call for a European permanent mobilization to support the fights against the crisis and build a future for everyone in Europe and in the world.

Final Declaration 9th Asia- Europe People’s Forum

23 October 2012
Over 1,000 women and men, representing people’s organisations and citizens from Asia and Europe joined together at the 9th Asia Europe People’s Forum under the title “People’s Solidarity against Poverty and for Sustainable Development: Challenging Unjust and Unequal Development, Building States of Citizens forCitizens”