Many of us are suffering every day the impacts of water privatisation. In Catalonia the monopolist and for-profit approach water service is widely extended, having most of the municipalities their water service privatised and managed by Agbar, subsidiary of the french multinational Suez. The contempt and impacts of Suez all   Read More ...

March 14 is the International Day of Action for Rivers and Against Dams. Every year, thousands of people around the world lift their voices to celebrate the world’s rivers and those who struggle to protect them. The International Day of Action for Rivers is a day to celebrate victories such   Read More ...

Vigilance is necessary because some of the greediest economic interests in the world are promoting water markets as part of their plans to financialize nature. The water market is contrary to protecting water as a commons, whether this market is global, regional or local. The fact there is not currently   Read More ...

A spontaneous, largely under-the-radar blue revolution is gaining steam in sub-Saharan Africa and has the potential to boost food security and incomes for tens of millions of the region’s poorest inhabitants. Small-scale irrigation techniques with simple buckets, affordable pumps, drip lines, and other equipment are enabling farm families to weather   Read More ...

For weeks later:  The immediate post super-storm Sandy debate placed ultimate blame on either increased CO2 levels in the atmosphere or a divine intervention. Either option ignores the obvious. There is a link between the extreme heat experienced this summer and the extreme amount of water vapor in the air which   Read More ...

The European Crisis will be exacerbated by a privatisation of public services. Dear Chancellor, With great concern and support for the common project of a united Europe, we do not only follow the Euro-crisis but also the austerity conditionalities imposed by the EU, ECB and IMF on countries such as   Read More ...

Once again the Blue October Campaign took place in Bolivia, a popular initiative to defend water with more than hundred social organizations, institutions, NGOs, and activists that promote public events to reflect on water rights. This mobilization is inspired by the historical Referendum in Uruguay that in 2004 included in   Read More ...

The on-line Permanent World Report on the Right to Water (RAMPEDRE: Rapport Mondial Permanant en ligne sur le Droit à  l’Eau) is available at http://www.rampedre.net The Report is structured in five parts: the international legal and  institutional context of recognition of the Right to Water the state  of implementation of   Read More ...