Regional Networks
In addition to working with movements and networks in the cities, towns and territories where struggles against the expropriation of water resources and the privatization of water services impact the daily life of millions, the BPP emphasizes working across national and international borders to develop trans-local solidarities to contest water governance at higher scales.
The BPP is a benchmark organization in regions around the world, supporting, building and organizing in and alongside regional networks including the Africa Water Justice Network (AWJN), the European Water Movement (EWM), the Platform of Public-Community Partnerships of the Americas (PAPC) and the Inter-American Network of Vigilance for the Defense and Right to Water (REDVIDA), among others. Click the links above to explore these networks and struggles.
Global Water Justice
Global water governance institutions have long been captured by private corporations and finance, placing increasing pressure on governments at all levels to seek private sector solutions to the growing global water crisis. Water justice movements around the world have worked for decades to challenge this corporate influence from the local to the global scale.
Building on more than two decades of organizing Alternative World Water Forums to challenge the corporate capture of global water governance at the triennial World Water Forum (WWF), global water justice movements established the People’s Water Forum (PWF) following the 2022 Alternative Forum held in Dakar, Senegal. The PWF is a permanent space for water justice movements to continuously challenge the corporate capture of global water governance, strengthening our efforts to engage and contest the WWF every three years.
Blue Communities
Since the 2009, the BPP has promoted local solutions for water justice through the Blue Communities Project, a framework that emphasizes the human right to water and democratic public and community control of water.
Since its inception, there has been growing enthusiasm for the project among water justice networks around the world, opening possibilities for greater trans-local and international solidarity rooted in local solutions and the needs of communities. Initially focused on Europe and North America, in 2019 the BPP began to work with the PAPC to expand Blue Communities in Latin America and in 2023 with the AWJN to launch the project in Africa.