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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 utilities in order to make the human right to water a reality for everyone.

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  • Revival of the public water sector

    As Amsterdam hosts its first International Water Week, TNI and its allies will be actively promoting Water Operators’ Partnerships (WOPs) between public water utilities as the best means to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

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  • The global resource grab

    Worsening climate change and the emergence of new economic powers is leading to a renewed scramble for resources, with negative consequences for many impoverished communities.

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  • The politics of achieving the Right to Water

    Privatisation offers nothing to the 43 percent of Africans in cities who have no access to water. On World Water Day 2011, experts met in Cape Town to share experiences of successful public-public partnerships for equal public access.

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    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.

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  • 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.

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600.000 new water connections due to Asian WOPs
Satoko Kishimoto
 September 2011

Stockholm Water Week included a whole day of seminars with a
regional focus and I opted to attend 'Eye on Asia: Partnerships for
Water: How Can Asia Do More?'



Japan’s role in global water: big choice ahead
Satoko Kishimoto
 August 2011

Japanese water companies should avoid investing in for-profit water service ventures abroad, and should focus on non-profit, public-public partnerships instead.

Pro-poor water management: community participation and ownership
Satoko Kishimoto
 August 2011

‘Pro-poor urban water provision’ was a big theme at World Water Week in Stockholm this year. But what is pro-poor water provision, in practice?

Fighting corruption with the Water TAP plus A
Satoko Kishimoto
 August 2011

Using research, workshops and local user's committies to help tackle corruption in the governance of private and public utilities - a case study from Kenya.

Many little streams make a mighty river – the 1 per cent solidarity levy
Satoko Kishimoto
 August 2011

How an innovative financial scheme could help to finance international public-public water projects in the global south.

Money matters at Stockholm Water Week
Satoko Kishimoto
 August 2011

The tone of the debates in Stockholm has improved compared to previous years, less focus on private sector expansion, more on genuine solutions. 

Stockholm Water Week 2011 has started
Satoko Kishimoto
 August 2011

World Water Week took place in Stockholm this year. Water activists again participated in sessions to ensure that critical voices were heard. Satoko Kishimoto writes about her experiences.

Activists mark one-year anniversary of recognition of human right to water and sanitation
Satoko Kishimoto
 August 2011

A group of activists celebrated the right to water in front of a public water fountain in the centre of Brussels on 27 July.  The occasion was the one-year anniversary of the UN's recognition of right to clean and safe drinking water and sanitation as human right.

Strengthening public water in Africa
Samir Bensaid August 2011

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.

Water Grabbing
Maryann Manahan June 2011
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With hedge funds making bids for melting glaciers, there is a danger at a time of multiple crises of a renewed push for commodification of water that will affect those who can't pay.

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