First day in the World Water Forum.

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 ...

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 ...

Press release of Attac France. With the support of the French government and many local government authorities, water multinationals will be holding the World Water Forum from March 12 to 17, 2012 in Marseille. This Forum for water merchants is meant to strengthen privatization and control of an essential element   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 ...

Water activists in Mexico 2006 from FAME 2012 on Vimeo. An extract of the documentary Agua mi Sangre filmed during the 4th World Water Forum in Mexico in 2006. This extract gives a voice to water activists denouncing the imposture of the World Water Forum.

For years, many human rights, social justice and environmental groups, as well as grassroots communities around the world fighting for their right to water, have decried the growing influence of big water corporations at the United Nations. For-profit utilities, bottled water companies, water industry associations and companies investing in private   Read More ...

Call from Dakar for an Alternative World Water Forum in Marseille in March 2012 In July 2010, the United Nations recognized that having access to water was a fundamental human right. Social activists, citizens, native peoples, and elected officials around the world have fought for years to make this historic   Read More ...