July 2010
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.
June 2009
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”).
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
March 2009
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 to the positive agenda of the global
water justice movements!
March 2009
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 to the positive agenda of the global water justice movements!
Given that we are in Turkey, we cannot ignore that this country provides a powerful example of the devastating impacts of destructive water management policies.
March 2009
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 [1].
According to a new report from Corporate Europe Observatory (PDF), the EU is still pushing for the inclusion of water in trade agreements, promoting privatised water services, and undermining water as
November 2008
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.
Villagers have included all communities and castes in the Koodams, public money has been used to renovate tanks and dig new ones…
The acronyms come thick and fast — TWAD, IAMWARM — as do names like Change Management Group, and many others.
November 2008
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 relationships between State institutions and communities.
Public Public Partnerships (PUPs). Just three words.
October 2008
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
For 5,000 years of recorded history, water was seen as a gift of nature, held in trust for future generations. Water was considered a resource, not a commodity, part of the global commons, accessible and available to all.
October 2008
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 Hoedeman (CEO), Renato di Nicola (Italian water forum), David Hachfeld (ATTAC Germany)
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