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Essential action on our most essential resource:
Critical new strategies to guarantee the human right to water
Tom Kruse
Program Director
Democratic Practice – Global Governance
Property of Corporate Accountability International © 2011Corporate Accountability International, 2014
Protecting water for the common good
Photo credit: Tom Kruse
Maude Barlow
National Chairperson, Council of Canadians
Saving Our Blue Future:
The Human Race Needs a New Water Ethic
www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/26-9
Photo credit: Flickr / cc / Tim Cronin / Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
www.blueplanetproject.net
Shayda Naficy
Director, International Water Campaign
Moving the World Bank to divest
Property of Corporate Accountability International © 2011Corporate Accountability International, 2014
Moving the World Bank to divest
1. The problems with water privatization
2. The World Bank as a barrier to increased access
3. Current strategies to move the World Bank
4. Broader implications
Property of Corporate Accountability International © 2011Corporate Accountability International, 2014
The problems of water privatization
Property of Corporate Accountability International © 2011Corporate Accountability International, 2014
World Bank drives privatization
As a
• funder
• key door opener
• validator
Property of Corporate Accountability International © 2011Corporate Accountability International, 2014
Case study: Manila
Property of Corporate Accountability International © 2011Corporate Accountability International, 2014
The World Bank’s shifted approach
Property of Corporate Accountability International © 2011Corporate Accountability International, 2014
Even greater struggle for water
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Moving the World Bank to divest
Property of Corporate Accountability International © 2011Corporate Accountability International, 2014
Create an internal wedge
• PLACEHOLDER
Property of Corporate Accountability International © 2011Corporate Accountability International, 2014
Create external pressure
World Bank
'gambling assets' by
investing in private
water firms
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Precedent for moving the World Bank
Property of Corporate Accountability International © 2011Corporate Accountability International, 2014
We are winning
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True solutions to the water crisis
• PLACEHOLDER
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Essential action to our most essential resource final (1)

  • 1. Essential action on our most essential resource: Critical new strategies to guarantee the human right to water
  • 2. Tom Kruse Program Director Democratic Practice – Global Governance
  • 3. Property of Corporate Accountability International © 2011Corporate Accountability International, 2014 Protecting water for the common good Photo credit: Tom Kruse
  • 4. Maude Barlow National Chairperson, Council of Canadians
  • 5. Saving Our Blue Future: The Human Race Needs a New Water Ethic www.commondreams.org/view/2014/02/26-9 Photo credit: Flickr / cc / Tim Cronin / Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) www.blueplanetproject.net
  • 7. Moving the World Bank to divest
  • 8. Property of Corporate Accountability International © 2011Corporate Accountability International, 2014 Moving the World Bank to divest 1. The problems with water privatization 2. The World Bank as a barrier to increased access 3. Current strategies to move the World Bank 4. Broader implications
  • 9. Property of Corporate Accountability International © 2011Corporate Accountability International, 2014 The problems of water privatization
  • 10. Property of Corporate Accountability International © 2011Corporate Accountability International, 2014 World Bank drives privatization As a • funder • key door opener • validator
  • 11. Property of Corporate Accountability International © 2011Corporate Accountability International, 2014 Case study: Manila
  • 12. Property of Corporate Accountability International © 2011Corporate Accountability International, 2014 The World Bank’s shifted approach
  • 13. Property of Corporate Accountability International © 2011Corporate Accountability International, 2014 Even greater struggle for water
  • 14. Property of Corporate Accountability International © 2011Corporate Accountability International, 2014 Moving the World Bank to divest
  • 15. Property of Corporate Accountability International © 2011Corporate Accountability International, 2014 Create an internal wedge • PLACEHOLDER
  • 16. Property of Corporate Accountability International © 2011Corporate Accountability International, 2014 Create external pressure World Bank 'gambling assets' by investing in private water firms
  • 17. Property of Corporate Accountability International © 2011Corporate Accountability International, 2014 Precedent for moving the World Bank
  • 18. Property of Corporate Accountability International © 2011Corporate Accountability International, 2014 We are winning
  • 19. Property of Corporate Accountability International © 2011Corporate Accountability International, 2014 True solutions to the water crisis • PLACEHOLDER Corporate Accountability International, 2014 Photo credit: Kris Krüg, Flickr Creative Commons
  • 20. Corporate Accountability International, 2014 CONTACT US StopCorporateAbuse.org 10 Milk Street, Suite 610, Boston, MA 02108 info@stopcorporateabuse.org +1 617-695-2525