Books & Reports
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Piercing Challenges and Implications of Privatization on Water Sectors and Options for Sustainability in Cameroon
A report for the Alternative World Water Forum, March 2022. Read the full article here.
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DRYING OUT AFRICAN LANDS: Expansion of Large–Scale Agriculture Threatens Access to Water in Africa
A report for the Alternative World Water Forum, March 2022Read the full report by our partners at The Oakland Institute here.
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Women-led Community Water Management
Our partners in Colombia, Corporación Ecológica y Cultural Penca de Sábila, are working with women community water managers to strengthen their involvement in public and community water systems. Read more about their work here.
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Towards an ecofeminist water policy: Notes for public-community water governance
Our partners, Engineering Without Borders, Catalunya, have released “Towards an ecofeminist water policy: Notes for public-community water governance.” “Water is an essential good for life and for many who see it and treat it as a big business. We have already seen the results of treating water as just another commodity, but what water policies…
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SDG6: Water and sanitation are fundamental services, privatization is not a means of implementation!
The ambition and breadth of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Agenda has been the object of both praise and ridicule. Some have scoffed at the sheer number of initiatives, describing the 17-goal and 169-target plan as the “leave no target behind” agenda. In addition, the global development plan was produced by a range of actors…
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Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2018
Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2018: Exploring new policy pathways How to overcome obstacles and contradictions in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda Chapter 6 – (Re)municipalization of water – the right way towards achieving SDG Written By Meera Karunananthan, Blue Planet Project, and Satoko Kishimoto, Transnational Institute Full report (pdf, 3,5 MB) E-book (epub, 3,4…
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The Fall of Prepaid Water Meters in Ghana: An account of civil society organizations’ campaign for human right to water
A new report by the Water Citizens’ Network in Ghana traces the history of resistance to pre-paid water metres and the successful campaign to stop the Ghanaian government’s most recent attempts to implement metering schemes. The report argues that the government’s latest initiative – a direct result of pressures from the World Bank and International…
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Our Right to Water: Assessing progress five years after the UN recognition of the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation
On July 28, 2010, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a historic resolution recognizing the human rights to water and sanitation as “essential for the full enjoyment of the right to life.” This paper examines what has transpired in the five years since these resolutions were adopted and what remains to be done.
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La defensa del agua: el corazón de la lucha contra el neoliberalismo en El Salvador
English Este documento examina tres estrategias utilizadas a nivel nacional por coaliciones de movimientos sociales en El Salvador con el fin de hacer frente a la crisis del agua al desafiar sus causas sistémicas. Estas estrategias incluyen: una prohibición nacional de la minería metálica, una enmienda constitucional que reconoce el derecho humano al agua y…
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Factsheet: 5 reasons to say “no” to Veolia in Dae-gu and Gyeongbak
As the world’s biggest water profiteer, the French multinational Veolia Environment has had to reinvent its corporate image several times over the decades because of corruption scandals, human rights violations and bad labour practices. Today, Veolia continues to seek new markets outside its traditional base in Europe. The company owns hundreds of subsidiaries, including Veolia…