From the 23rd to the 27th of September 2008, water justice activists, public water managers/operators, trade unions and academe from Asian countries met in Chennai, India.
For the past five decades of Israeli occupation, water management in the West Bank and Gaza has been constrained by several political, technical and economic factors. Management of public resources, including water, has been completely within Israeli hands; decisions were made with little or no regard for Palestinian interests and needs.
V Istanbulu poteka peti Svetovni vodni forum, na katerem korporacije skupaj s podporo Svetovne banke in zahodnih vlad še naprej razširjajo idejo o vodi kot ekonomski dobrini in ne kot človekovi pravici.
Carlos, who is 13 years od, has left his house to go fishing. Not far away, there is a reservoir where he spends long hours watching the birds nest while he waits to catch a fish or two.
Il sindaco di Parigi, Bertrand Delanoë, ha annunciato che la municipalità non ha intenzione di rinnovare i suoi contratti con Suez e Veolia, le due aziende private che gestiscono i servizi idrici della capitale.
Corporate Europe Observatory et le Transnational Institute, engagés de longue date dans les luttes pour la republicisation de l’eau, en Europe et dans le monde, viennent d’ouvrir le site remunicipalisation.org qui présente une cartographie mondiale des collectivités qui ont repris la maîtrise publique de leurs services d’eau.
Since the mid-1990s (1) , Morocco's economic and political decision-makers have pushed for the liberalisation, privatisation and the lowering of the trade barriers agenda that has been prevalent in the country since 1983. (2)
The water war in Cochabamba, Bolivia, provided some of the first shots against privatisation of water services heard around world, but necessary institutional and cultual changes, as opposed to symbolic restructuring of the board of the public service institution, have not yet happened.
The Andean city of Huancayo has shown that a strong local movement of citizens and workers can expand the struggle against privatisation into reclaiming public water services.
