Campaigners pan global water conference for allowing business access to senior government officials and raise concerns that delegates are watering down human rights commitments. Diplomats, business leaders, and scientific experts are gathering in southern France this week for an international conference billed as a “platform for solutions” to the global   Read More ...

New book uncovers private failures leading cities to take back control of water worldwide. Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), the Municipal Services Project (MSP) and the Transnational Institute (TNI) are launching the groundbreaking study Remunicipalisation: Putting Water Back in Public Hands on Thursday, March 15 in Marseille, France. The book explores   Read More ...

The Inter Press Service reports, “Organisers of the Alternative World Water Forum (known by its French acronym FAME), which will take place simultaneously as the World Water Forum, see the Forum as an outmoded apparatus, lagging woefully behind a growing movement for ‘water justice’ around the world.” “If the right   Read More ...

World Water Forum attendance reportedly down as activists ramp up preparations for Alternative Forum. Brussels – Critics of the triennial World Water Forum are encouraged by the failure on the part of forum organizers to attract large numbers to this year’s event taking place March 12-17 in Marseille. Forum organizers   Read More ...

The UPA (United Progressive Alliance) is seeking to hand over a natural resource essential for right to life to the corporate sector through its ill-conceived National Water Policy. Karl Marx claimed that the state would wither away once the proletariat took over the material and productive forces of society and   Read More ...

World Bank partners with Nestlé to “transform water sector” – New venture aims to privatize water country by country [Washington, DC]: Today, the World Bank launched a new partnership with global corporations including Nestlé, Coca-Cola and Veolia. Housed at the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), the new venture aspires   Read More ...

In 1992, citizens and activists from across the world gathered in Rio de Janeiro for the Earth Summit. On December 24, 2009, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution to hold the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio — to mark 20 years of the Earth Summit, and   Read More ...

How do you distribute water in a city? Urban water supply has several models which are in use worldwide. Basically the supply can be managed through a private company, or through an autonomous water board or directly from the municipality. In rural areas, it can also be through a cooperative   Read More ...