Remunicipalisation

Making the European Green Deal Work for Municipalities

English
Programmes: 
Public Alternatives
Subtitle: 
Municipalize Europe Debate, Report #3
Article type: 
Article
Authors: 
Lavinia Steinfort
Teaser: 

On November 5th, the last session of the online Municipalize Europe! event brought together a variety of municipalists who power and practise progressive policies on the local and system-wide level in the fight against the climate crisis. They discussed which municipal actions the EU should support for a European Green Deal (EGD) to have justice, democracy and regeneration at its heart.

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  Anne-Sophie Olmos, Grenobles’ Councilor for Public Management and Procurement, and Blanca Bayas of the Debt Observatory in Globalisation (ODG), put community-led public services at the center of their contributions. For the EGD to succeed much more is needed than simply investing in renewable energy. Indeed, decarbonising the economy also means to divest from all that is extractive* ... Read more

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Tags: 
Energy
Green New Deal
Remunicipalisation
Regions: 
Europe

El futuro del agua pública y democrática: resistencias y alternativas

Topic: 
Remunicipalización
Justicia del Agua
Spanish
Programmes: 
Alternativas Públicas
Subtitle: 
El Foro Alternativo Mundial del Agua (FAMA) ofrece el contrapunto al foro empresarial (segunda parte)
Article type: 
Article
Authors: 
Satoko Kishimoto
Leandro Bonecini
Editors: 
Steve Erwood
Translators: 
Marcela Olivera
Teaser: 

Del 17 al 22 de marzo de 2018, cerca de 7000 personas de más de 30 países y casi todos los estados brasileños se reunieron en el Foro Mundial Alternativo del Agua (FAMA). El FAMA envió un mensaje claro cuando manifestó que no colaboraría con el hermético VIII Foro Mundial del Agua, organizado por Consejo Mundial del Agua, un centro de estudios privado, y sus socios del mundo empresarial. El... Read more

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Plenaria en el FAMA / Photo credit FAMA Según algunas noticias, el presupuesto total del VIII Foro Mundial del Agua fue de 103 millones de euros. Según los cálculos más prudentes, más de la mitad (52 millones de euros) fue financiada por los contribuyentes brasileños, a través del Gobierno del Distrito Federal (más de 30 millones de euros) y la Agencia Nacional del Agua (ANA, 22 millones de e... Read more

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FAMA
Related content: 
Resistencia y defensa del agua y los territorios en Brasil
Llegó para quedarse: La remunicipalización del agua como tendencia global
Tags: 
Reclaiming Public Water
World Water Forum
Remunicipalisation
Downloads: 
Declaración del FAMA en inglés(pdf, 105.38 KB)
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The future for democratic public water: resistance and alternatives

Topic: 
Water Justice
English
Programmes: 
Public Alternatives
Subtitle: 
Alternative World Water Forum (FAMA) provides a counterpoint to the corporate forum #2
Article type: 
Article
Authors: 
Satoko Kishimoto
Leandro Bonecini
Editors: 
Steve Erwood
Teaser: 

The Alternative World Water Forum - FAMA, held from March 17th to 22nd in Brasilia attracted 7,000 people from almost every state in Brazil. FAMA sent a clear message that it would not engage with the opaque 8th World Water Forum, hosted by the private think-tank World Water Council and its corporate partners. The World Water Council has fostered pro-privatisation policy debates for decades.

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Plenary session at FAMA / Photo credit FAMA The 8th World Water Forum’s total budget is reported to be €103 million. At the lowest estimate, more than half of this (€52m) was financed by the Brazilian taxpayer, through the Federal District Government (more than €30m) and ANA - National Water Agency (€22m), without any scrutiny. This massive public spending for such an obscure event is highly ... Read more

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FAMA
Related content: 
Resistance and defence of water and territories in Brazil
Tags: 
Reclaiming Public Water
World Water Forum
Remunicipalisation
Downloads: 
Alternative World Water Forum FAMA Declaration in English(pdf, 105.38 KB)
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Turin: The long march towards water remunicipalisation

Topic: 
Water Justice
Remunicipalisation
English
Programmes: 
Public Alternatives
Article type: 
Article
Authors: 
Mariangela Rosolen
Editors: 
Ann Doherty
Teaser: 

On 9 October 2017, the Turin City Council turned back privatisation and took another step towards the remunicipalisation of its metropolitan water system. And so the city entered the next phase of its long march towards water sovereignty, begun in the aftermath of the Second World War on the ruins of a town half-destroyed by allied bombing and by Nazi/Fascist retaliations against the democratic... Read more

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Photo credit Forum Italiano dei Movimenti per l’Acqua... Read more

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Manifestazione Nazionale per i Beni Comuni e contro le privatizzazioni

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Forum Italiano dei Movimenti per l’Acqua
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Il ritorno alla gestione pubblica dei servizi di base
Reclaiming Public Services
Tags: 
Remunicipalisation
Reclaiming Public Water
Downloads: 
Turin: The long march towards water remunicipalisation(pdf, 223.79 KB)
Regions: 
Italy
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A New Wave of Water Privatisation in Indonesia

Topic: 
Water Justice
English
Programmes: 
Public Alternatives
Article type: 
Article
Authors: 
Irfan Zamzami
Editors: 
Madeleine Bélanger Dumontier
Teaser: 

The central government of Indonesia has repeatedly announced its intention to universalise access to clean water by 2019.  To achieve this, an estimated 27 million new connections are needed, with a major investment gap of IDR 274.8 trillion (US$20.8 billion). 

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And most of the time, as clearly seen from official documents such as the government’s 2017  (PPP) book: Public Private Partnerships, Infrastructure Projects Plan in Indonesia[1] and the president’s regulation, the government sees privatisation as the silver-bullet solution.... Read more

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Amrta Institute
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Indonesian Supreme Court Terminates Water Privatization
Tags: 
Remunicipalisation
Reclaiming Public Water
Regions: 
Indonesia
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Indonesian Supreme Court Terminates Water Privatization

Topic: 
Water Justice
English
Programmes: 
Public Alternatives
Subtitle: 
Jakarta water Way Forward - Joint Notice PSI and TNI
Article type: 
Opinion
Authors: 
Satoko Kishimoto
In collaboration with: 
Public Services International (PSI)
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The Indonesian Supreme Court ordered termination of water privatization  and restoration of public management to ensure human right to water. We stay vigilant for transparent and accountable transition.

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Our colleagues, allies and friends in Indonesia informed us of  the final judicial appeal in the 20-year long  illegal privatization of Jakarta City’s water services – one of the last acts of the Suharto dictatorship in 1997.  ... Read more

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Jakarta citizens' final challenge in the Supreme Court
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Remunicipalisation
Reclaiming Public Water
Regions: 
Indonesia

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