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Reclaiming Public Water

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

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?'



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

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
August 2011
Satoko Kishimoto

‘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
August 2011
Satoko Kishimoto

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
August 2011
Satoko Kishimoto

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

The politics of achieving the Right to Water
April 2011
Susan George
Water Justice
 Mthandeki Nhlapo, Peter Waldorff

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.

Open letter to UN-HABITAT Executive Director, Joan Clos, on UN funding for water justice
April 2011
Satoko Kishimoto
Water Justice

Recent plans to cut funds for the UN's water related work - meaning support for water operator partnership (WOP) alliances would be lost - is a major threat to the great progress which has already been achieved and threatens to undermine the provision of universal access to clean public water....

UN World Water Day 2011: Reclaiming public water for our cities
March 2011
Water Justice

TNI's Water Justice programme is marking this year's UN World Water Day in Cape Town at the GWOPA (Global Water Operator partnerships Alliance) Congress, in the continuing struggle to reclaim public water.

Video: Water Union Rally in Jakarta - December 2010
March 2011

In December 2010, hundreds of water union workers in Jakarta (Indonesia) protested against the privatisation of water services in the city.

Video: Through the Empty Tap - Water Privatisation in Jakarta
March 2011

The experience of water privatisation in Jakarta (Indonesia) shows that private investments are not the answer to fulfill the human right to water.

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