Presentations in the workshops of the Alternative World Water Forum : Videos in french. Videos in spanish. Videos in english. Videos in italian. Videos in portuguese.

The success of the Alternative World Water Forum (FAME) that took place in Marseilles in March 2012 has surpassed all our hopes and we have been as overwhelmed with the number of participants, as with the content shared. According to Darcey O’Callaghan, Food & Water Watch’s international policy director, ”FAME’s   Read More ...

Water justice at the Alternative World Water Forum with Maude Barlow (Council of Canadians/Blue Planet Project, Right Livelihood Award Laureate “Alternative Nobel Prize”), Wenonah Hauter (Executive Director of Food and Water Watch, Washington DC,Oscar Olivera (Water activist from Cochabamba, Bolivia), Mary Ann Manahan (Focus on the Global South, Manila), Olcay   Read More ...

Statement of Anti-­fracking groups at the Cupula Dos Povos. June 22nd 2012,Rio de Janeiro. For a Future without Fracking! Gathered in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday 22nd June 2012 during the Peoples’  Summit, we,  activists and campaigners engaged in the struggle against shale  gas and shale coal and shale oil from around the   Read More ...

DECLARATION OF THE PARTICIPANTS AT THE ALTERNATIVE WORLD WATER FORUM IN MARSEILLE, 14 – 17 march 2012. As members of the global water justice movement gathered together in Marseille in March 2012 at FAME (Alternative World Water Forum), we have a shared vision of water: water is a commons, not   Read More ...

A small video clip which successfully recreates the FAME atmosphere.

On march 14 in Marseille, Counter Balance and International Rivers organised a public action against the financing of large dams and the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol (HSAP).