Water Justice

Recent content by Water Justice

Revival of the public water sector (31 Oct 2011)

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.

The politics of achieving the Right to Water (28 Apr 2011)

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 (11 Apr 2011)

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.

Public Community Partnerships in Peru and Uruguay (21 Mar 2011)

Citizen struggles for public water in Peru and Uruguay share many similarities and a common vision, with "public-community partnerships" bringing trade unions and water utility managers together on a shared platform.

UN World Water Day 2011: Reclaiming public water for our cities (21 Mar 2011)

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.

EU awards €40 million to support water partnership projects in Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific (28 Aug 2010)

PSIRU at the University of Greenwich has created the www.acp-eu-waterpartnerships.org website help water utilities, local authorities and civil society organisations access and use EU aid to build not-for-profit ACP-EU water partnerships.

UN declares water and sanitation a human right (28 Jul 2010)

In an historic victory for social movements, the UN declared water and sanitation a human right despite opposition from countries like the US, UK and Canada.

Urgent action: Support the Human Right to Water (27 Jul 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.

Reclaiming public water seminar report (15 Mar 2010)

The Reclaiming Public Water (RPW) Network held its first global strategy seminar since the network was launched in autumn 2005. See the inspiring and informative video debate amongst global social movement leaders as they assess progress and challenges in the dynamic international movement to reclaim Public Water.

Interview with Luis Padron about the public-public partnership for improving water supply in Huancayo, Peru (11 Aug 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.