Water justice

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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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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Water: a common good, public management, and alternatives

Water justice activists gathered in Cochabamba, Bolivia in August 2008
to envision just and sustainable models of water stewardship and to
build alliances that will bring these visions to fruition. A...

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Writing on Water

Inspiring video on the experience of the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board which has broken down barriers between communities and engineers, and is pioneering a model of effective, democratic, accountable...

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Public-public partnerships (PUPs) in water

Out of sight of many global policy-makers, a growing number of public sector water companies have been engaged, in a great variety of ways, in helping others develop the capacity to be effective and accountable...

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World Water Forum in Istanbul

The corporate-controlled World Water Forum in Istanbul has been marked by repression of protestors, but also strong resistance to pro-privatisation policies from both civil society and some Southern governments....

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Olivier Hoedeman

Satoko Kishimoto

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»Za vodo sploh ne bi smeli plačevati«

Satoko Kishimoto

Nov 1 2009

V Istanbulu poteka peti Svetovni vodni forum, na katerem korporacije skupaj s podporo Svetovne banke in zahodnih vlad še naprej razširjajo idejo o vodi kot ekonomski dobrini in ne kot človekovi pravici.

Reclaiming Public Water (Arabic)

TNI

Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) Apr 9 2009

Changing the flow

Mar 31 2009

Twelve brief interviews with water activists from Latin America as well
as declarations from a historic gathering in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in
August, 2008

Progressive Public Water Management in Europe

Philippe Terhorst

David Hachfeld, Olivier Hoedeman Feb 3 2009

Despite decades of intense pressure to commercialise and privatise water delivery, there are still numerous inspiring examples of successful public water management in cities and regions across Europe.

Water: Common Good, Public Management, And Alternatives

Satoko Kishimoto

Dec 5 2008

From the 23rd to the 27th of September 2008, water justice activists, public water managers/operators, trade unions and academe from Asian countries met in Chennai, India.

Huancayo: From resistance to public-public partnership

Philippe Terhorst

Apr 3 2008

The Andean city of Huancayo has shown that a strong local movement of citizens and workers can expand the struggle against privatisation into reclaiming public water services.

Water democracy

TNI

Mary Ann Manahan, Nami Yamamoto, Olivier Hoedeman (eds) Nov 29 2007

Compilation of 19 new essays written by civil society activists, trade unionists and other water practitioners in Asia on the fight against water privatisation and the experiences of building progressive public alternatives.

Interview with Luis Padron about the public-public partnership for improving water supply in Huancayo, Peru

Water Justice

Aug 11 2007

The ground-breaking new Public-Public Partnership (PUP) between the
Argentinean public water utility Aguas Bonaerenses S.A. (ABSA) and
SEDAM, the provincial water utility of Huancayo (Peru) is an important
example of the growing trend of not-for-profit cooperation between
public utilities from the South.

Por um modelo público de água

Belén Balanyá Jul 24 2007