What does it take for a movement to actually win? Organizers in the campaign against water privatization in Greece share their story and their strategy. The path to the privatization of water in Greece was paved by the entry into the stock market in 1999 of the two major water   Read More ...

The World Bank is at a crossroads. During its most recent meetings, its governors unanimously approved President Jim Yong Kim’s new strategy to end extreme poverty by 2030. It’s an ambition that will require both innovation and learning from past failures. It will require that evidence supersede ideology. Yet, this “new”   Read More ...

In August 2013, Allentown, Pennsylvania, rented its water and waste systems for 50 years because it did not have enough money to pay the pensions owed to its employees or to maintain its water system. Allentown is not alone in turning to infrastructure privatization to deal with cash-flow problems. Indeed,   Read More ...

Shareholders and leaders of Antofagasta Minerals, which owned Minera Los Pelambres, express a viewpoint on the situation in Caimanes (Chile), severely affected by their investments. The June 12, 2013 in London, at the General Assembly of Antofagasta Minerals PLC -Chilean company listed on the stock exchange in London- were present   Read More ...

For centuries, water has been seen as a free public good, with no price attached. But as droughts, population growth and farming demand deplete aquifers worldwide, water prices and demand for innovative water technology are set to steadily rise, said experts. “The dry regions such as the American Southwest are   Read More ...

With a general and unsubstantiated cliché that “privatization is an one-way for EYATH” transmitted by the private TV channels – who are the only ones – the Greek government welcomed the news of the retreat of the European Commission and the exclusion of water services from the new Concessions Directive.   Read More ...

Please help us to support our friends in Thessaloniki who are fighting the sale of EYATH imposed by the Troika, we need as many voices as possible! The letter below (drafted together with the movement in Thessaloniki) is to be sent to the investors and companies that wish to partake   Read More ...

Water privatisation is threatening our sovereign policymaking Water has always been a source of power—and of discrimination. Just as the study of an irrigated landscape is a route to the mem­ory of the power of kings and earlier forms of state, the government’s recent water policies, especially those on drinking   Read More ...