Reclaiming Public Water book Achievements, Struggles and Visions from Around the World

Editions in other languages:
Arabic - French - Spanish - Indonesian - Italian - Chinese - Finnish - Korean - Japanese - Hindi - Brazilian

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Foreword [PDF]

New foreword for French edition, 2010 [PDF]

Introduction [PDF] by David Hall

*New chapters*

Part 1: Successful Public Water

• Porto Alegre's Water: Public and For All [PDF]
  Hélio Maltz
• Management of Basic Drinking Water and Sanitation Services by a Co-operative in Bolivia [PDF]
  Luis Fernando Yavarí
• People's Initiative in Water - Olavanna Village in Kerala. India Shows the Way [PDF]
  Joy Elamon
• Public-public Partnership: An Alternative Strategy in Water Management in Malaysia [PDF]
  Charles Santiago
• A Return to the Source - Re-municipalisation of Water Services in Grenoble, France [PDF]
  Raymond Avrillier
• Democratising the Regulation and Governance of Water in the US [PDF]
  Sean Flynn and Kathryn Boudouris
• Germany: Public Water Services in Continual Retreat? [PDF]
  Hans-Werner Krüger
• Water Co-operatives in Argentina [PDF]
  Alberto D. Muñoz
• Public Services in Colombia: A Matter of Democracy [PDF]
  Hildebrando Vélez

Part 2: Public Water. Work in Progress

• Recife, Brazil: Building up Water and Sanitation Services through Citizenship [PDF]
  Antonio Miranda
• Cochabamba, Bolivia: Public-collective Partnership after the Water War [PDF]
  Luis Sánchez Gómez and Philipp Terhorst
• The Venezuelan Experience in the Struggle for People-centred Drinking Water and Sanitation Services [PDF]
  Santiago Arconada Rodríguez
• Against the Current: Community-controlled Water Delivery in Savelugu, Ghana [PDF]
  Al-Hassan Adam
• Argentina: Workers' Co-operative Takes over Post-Enron [PDF]
  Guillermo Amorebieta
• South Africa: Testing the Waters of Public-public Partnerships [PDF]
  Laila Smith

Part 3: Struggles for People-centred Public Water

• Revised (July 2006) Uruguay: direct democracy in defence of the right to water
  Uruguay: Victorious Social Struggle for Water [PDF]
  Carlos Santos and Alberto Villarreal
• The Struggle against Water Privatisation in South Africa [PDF]
  Dale T. McKinley
• Ukraine: Women Act against Poverty and Privatisation [PDF]
  Svitlana Slesarenok
• Learning from Privatisation of Water Services in Trencin, Slovakia [PDF]
  Roman Havlicek
• Possibilities for Public Water in Manila [PDF]
  Carla A. Montemayor
• Water Privatisation in Indonesia [PDF]
  Nila Ardhianie
• Urban Water Management in Mexico [PDF]
  David Barkin

Empowering Public Water - Ways Forward [PDF]
the editorial team

New chapters added since first publication

French edition:

• Paris: an example of how local authorities can regain control of water management
  Anne Le Strat
• Paris: comment une collectivité peut reprendre en main la gestion de l’eau
  Anne Le Strat
• Foreword for the French edition 
• Renforcer l’eau publique en Afrique: pour un modèle de partenariat public-public en réseau Sud-Sud-Nord [PDF]
  Samir Bensaid

English edition:

• Uruguay: direct democracy in defence of the right to water
  Carlos Santos y Alberto Villareal
• Social Resistance in El Alto - Bolivia [PDF]
  Julián Pérez
• Abruzzo, Italia: a struggle in defence of water and for citizens' participation
  Augusto De Sanctis and Antonio Senta
• Water management in Córdoba (Spain): a participative, efficient and effective public model
  Enrique Ortega de Miguel and Andrés Sanz Mulas
• Water privatization does not yield cost savings
  Mildred E. Warner
• Strengthening public water in Africa: South South North networked model of Public-public Partnerships [PDF]
  Samir Bensaid
• Citizen-Controlled Water Supply Systems: Lessons From Bonadikombo, Limbe, Cameroon (PDF)
  Ambe J. Njoh

Arabic edition:

• Water Management Challenges in Palestine (PDF)
  PENGON – Friends of the Earth Palestine
• Drinking Water Protests in Egypt and the Role of Civil Society(PDF) 
  Abdel-Mawla Ismail
• Water privatisation in Morocco: First lessons drawn from the case of Lyonnaise des Eaux in Casablanca (PDF)
  Mehdi Lahlou 
• Huancayo: From resistance to public-public partnership (PDF)
  Philipp Terhorst
• Beyond water wars: lessons on forming collaborative governance from Cochabamba
  by Travis Driessen

Hindi edition

• Our rivers and water are not for sale! Reclaiming public water: the experience of Delhi
  Rakhi Sehgal, April 2007
• Democratisation of water management as a way to reclaiming public water: The Tamil Nadu experience
  V. Suresh and Pradip Prabhu, April 2007

Chinese edition (September 2006)

• Preface by Susan George 
• The privatization of water supply in China [PDF]
  Au Loong Yu and Liu Danqing
• Hong Kong: A role model of public-operated water supply services
  Government Waterworks Professionals Association

  Portuguese edition (July 2007):

• Water policy in Brazil and the various paths to implementation [PDF]
  Luis Fernando Novoa Grzon
• Política de águas no Brasil e os distintos caminhos de sua implementação [PDF]
  Luis Fernando Novoa Garzon

Revised chapter on Uruguay

Uruguay: direct democracy in defence of the right to water
Carlos Santos y Alberto Villareal

Notes on Authors [PDF]

Resources [PDF]