7. Water and sanitation issues – Global tendency
– More efficient management of water demand
– Participation of private sector companies
– Decentralized governance
8. The European Union position
Large variety of experiences of public and private water
management
Water « an indispensable resource for the economy »
« stronger role for the private water supply and sanitation »
European Water Initiative
EU member states moving away from PPP
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• How good is the implementation of plans..
• Is it financing Water Crisis ???
• Case Study by Navdanya on water privatization
projects in Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh &
Rajasthan
Some for all
All for some
Water Democracy
Water Aparatheid
Water for life
Water for Profit
Paradigm Shift
• Funding loans as conditionality for privatisation.
• Non sustainable use of Water
• Reduction of access to public utilities to a privileged access to industry and 24x7 supply for
rich urban areas.
• Diversion of ground water from rural areas to urban areas,
• Forcing governments to increase water tariffs, and to commodify water.
• Failures-Sonia Vihar plant in Delhi, Veeranam project in Tamil Nadu.
Failure in bringing Water to People
Success in guaranteeing contracts & Profits to SUEZ, VIVENDI, BECHTEL.
11. World Water Forum
• International meet by World Water Council,
an International Think tank on Water Resource
Management.
• Founded by CEO of Veolia, Members include
IFIs, World Institutions and Major Players in
Water Business
• Advocates symbiotic connections for a
sustainable water management and dealing
Water Crisis
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12. André-Ouvrard-Dash 12
• 5th WWF, Istanbul
• Istanbul Water
Consensus
• Turkish Government
venture of water
privatization (~ 90
Billion $)
World Water Forums
13. Alternative World Water Forum
• Motto -“Water for Life, Not for Profit”
• Internationalisation of water battles;
empowering local stakeholders
• Opposition against the capitalistic
globalization of water and sanitation services
• Helps in bringing international solidarity to
local struggles and impacting global policy
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14. Issues
• TURKEY Farmers’ fight for
control over local water resources in
an international perspective
• AFRICA Landgrabbing and the
control over water
• Arid Regions Water
Strewardship
• EU European Water policy,
corporate interests and the right to
water
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Results
• ITALYimplementation of National Water Rights
Network
• AFRICA implementation of Continental Networks
Water Rights
• Latin America, Africa, Europe,
notably Francesubstantial decline in Water
privatization
• bring international vigilante to the water privatization in
Indonesia.
• A law banning privatization has been already
implemented inNetherlands.
• It has also advocated for Access to Water as a
Fundamental Human Right which was subsequently
declared by UNon 29th July, 2010.
16. • UN General Assembly 2010
Access to water and sanitation as a human right
• UNESCO:
– Fragmentation of communities and households
• Food&Water Watch
– Privatization as a barrier to human right
– the adverse effects
– Increase in water prizes poor people loose their access
to water and sanitation
– Cost savings
• UN-Habitat
– Contextual problems privatization does often not
provide a solution where public water utility fails
17. Discussion
• Contrasting opinion (Thirst)
• Why do we ask the question whether we
privatize or not?
• Privatization on the run around the world
– Efficiacy, impacts and implications
• The golden way
• PuP and PPP
20. Points to Ponder
• How can privatization include the poor? ( prices go
up)
• Privatization is a big milestone – Who will own this
world?
• Privatization as a reallocation of power – failures of
the past
