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Urgent action: Support the Human Right to Water
July 2010
Water Justice

On Wednesday 28 July, the UN will vote on an historic resolution affirming the human right to water. But a powerful group of countries are trying to undermine the resolution.

Act now! Norway proposes new law on water and sewage!
June 2009
TNI

Please read the enclosure and send your support to watermov[at]online.no as soon as possible within June 12!

The Norwegian Ministry of Environment has sent out a proposal for a new law on water and sewage facilities (changing the “Law on Water- and Sewage Fees”).

Changing the flow
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March 2009

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

Water Justice Turkey Declaration
March 2009
TNI

After
Mexico City 2006, which was an important milestone of the continuous work of
the global movement for water justice, we have now gathered in Istanbul to mobilize
against the 5th World Water Forum. We are here to delegitimize this false, corporate
driven World Water...

Peoples Water Forum Declaration
March 2009
TNI

After Mexico City 2006, which was an important milestone of the continuous work of the global movement for water justice, we have now gathered in Istanbul to mobilize against the 5th World Water Forum. We are here to delegitimize this false, corporate driven World Water Forum and to give voice...

EU Water Policies Under Fire as World Water Forum Approaches
March 2009
TNI

The EU’s international water policies will face a double challenge from civil society campaigners and Southern governments when the World Water Forum starts in Istanbul next week (March 16-22) after a disagreement in negotiations in the run up to the Forum on the right to water...

Water to the people
November 2008
TNI
 Arvind Sivaramakrishnan
Bureaucrats and engineers from Tamil Nadu, working with villagers in a landmark experiment, are democratising the access to water. The lessons learnt were shared with an international audience at the Pan-Asian Colloquium on Water, organised in collaboration with the IIT in Chennai last month...
Global water crisis: Partnerships for the future
November 2008
TNI
 Vibhu Nayar and V. Suresh
When it comes to public services like access to water and sanitation, it has been proved that turning to the private sector is hardly the solution. Public Public Partnerships (PUPs), on the other hand, have achieved remarkable successes worldwide by forging open, democratic and dynamic...
Needed, a paradigm shift
October 2008
TNI
 V. Suresh amd Vibhu Mayar
Water is a part of the global commons. Only new initiatives between the State and the citizen, based on transparency, can ensure fair access to water for everyone.

What we do to water, we do to ourselves and the ones we love.
Popol Vuh, ancient Mayan Book...

Launch of the European Public Water Network
October 2008
TNI
The first pan-European Public Water Network was launched on the 21st of September 2008 at the European Social Forum in Sweden. NGO and trade union activists from about 15 countries attended this historical moment. Speakers included: Susan George (TNI), Adil Nadoo (Blue Planet Project), Olivier...
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