Africa Water Network (AWN) is a collective of water workers and activist in Africa working towards achieving unfettered access to water for all especially those who are economically or socially marginalised.
Water Justice Partners
The Alternative World Water Forum – in French, the Forum Alternatif Mondial de l’Eau (FAME) – is an open meeting place for reflective thinking, democratic debate of ideas, formulation of proposals, and free exchange of experiences. These discussions may lead to effective action and civil society movements which oppose the water resources be managed using profit logic by capitalistic companies, and even sometimes by public companies. The AWWF stands for ecological, social and citizen-based water management, water resource protection, and proper water distribution among different types of users.
Amrta in Sankskrit means living water that gives live to every living.
Vision: A world with sustainable water supply both in quality and quantity, a just access to water for every living organism on Earth.
Mission:
- Increasing public awareness in water management, wise use, and a sustainable water protection.
- Finding and implementing efforts to overcome water scarcity for ecosystem sustainability and public welfare through water conservation.
- Fight for the public rights to get water with a fair access.
The Blue Planet Project is a global initiative working with partners to achieve the goal of water justice now. Water Justice is based on right to water and on the principals that water is a public trust and a part of the global commons.
The Centre for Law, Policy and Human Rights Studies is based in Chennai, India. It hosted the Asian Water Colloquium "Water: Common Good, Public Management and Alternatives" in 2008
"SECURE WATER & FOOD FOR ALL, FOR EVER."
The Centre's mission: to mitigate Climate Challenges, water & food crisis, through a paradigm shift in Water Management & Service Delivery, engendering individual & organisational change, focusing on sustainable, equitable and democratic management of critical Resources & Services.
CEO is a research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups.
Enginyeria Sense Fronteres Catalunya (Engineers Without Borders) is an aid association made up of professionals, teachers and students who work to help guarantee universal access to basic services, tied to social change and strengthening Southern populations, and respecting cultural and technical distinctiveness.
Representing more than 200 unions - 8 million public service workers in Europe.
Focus on the Global South combines policy research, advocacy, activism, and grassroots capacity-building in order to generate critical analysis and encourage debates on national and international policies related to corporate-led globalisation, neo-liberalism and militarisation.
Food & Water Watch is a nonprofit consumer organisation in the US that works to ensure clean water and safe food.
The Municipal Service Project (MSP) systematically explores alternatives to the privatization and commercialization of service provision in the health, water, sanitation and electricity sectors. We evaluate service delivery models deemed to be successful alternatives to commercialization in an effort to understand the conditions required for their sustainability and reproducibility.
Our Water Commons seeks to transform societal decision making for water stewardship towards participatory, democratic, community-centered systems that value equity and sustainability as a strategy. Our work is based on a set of ten water commons principles. History: Our Water Commons is a collaborative program of On the Commons, an organization formed in 2001 to advance commons-based solutions that will help achieve environmental restoration, social justice, global cooperation and a brighter future for all. The Our Water Commons initiative was born out of a three day working meeting held in May 2008 with leaders from the Council on Canadians, the Blue Planet Project, Vermont Law school, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), Tarun Bharat Sangh (TBS), Food and Water Watch, Grassroots International, On the Commons, the Centre for Human Rights and Law (India), and the Red Vida (Latin America’s largest water justice network.
The international trade union federation of public sector workers, involving more than 600 trade unions in over 140 countries.
PSIRU researches privatization and restructuring of public services around the world, with special focus on water, energy, waste management, and healthcare.
Since 2005, TNI has been instrumental in catalysing and supporting the Reclaiming Public Water network, which has grown to include 220 organisations in 71 countries. This is an open, multi-sectoral network that enables activists, trade unionists and academics to work together with water utility managers and engineers to promote democratic, public models for providing water as the best means of ensuring safe, affordable access to water for all. TNI functions as the facilitating hub of the network.
La Red VIDA (Vigilancia Interamericana para la Defensa y Derecho al Agua – Inter-American Network for the Defense of the Right to Water) is a network against water privatisation and for public accountable water in the Americas with which TNI works closely.
The remunicipalisation tracker showcases cities, regions and countries that have rolled back privatisation and embarked on securing public water for all that need it.
Waterjustice.org is an open space to connect people from around the world dedicated to effective, democratic and equitable water solutions, including community activists, NGO campaigners, academic researchers, trade unionists and water utility managers. The success of the website will depend primarily on the active participation of these diverse groups.
The UK-based WDM campaigns tackle the root causes of poverty focusing on issues such as debt, trade, privatisation and climate change.
