On AlterNet: world water forum

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "world water forum"

Fixing Our Water Crisis Can't Be Done by the Corporations that Are Exacerbating It

If we learned anything from the World Water Forum it should be that the privatization model has failed and a grassroots movement is needed.

Activists slammed the event as a non-inclusive, corporate-driven fraud and called for a more open, democratic and transparent forum.

Payal and I traveled to the World Water Forum in Istanbul to inform the world about the risks of building large dams.

A growing movement thinks so. But at a water conference in Turkey, officials voice concern about implementing such a right.

It's unbelievable to think that over 20,000 people traveled thousands of miles to hear shortsighted corporate spin.

Behind the public posture as a trade expo and an educational forum for water advocates lies a labyrinth of political intrigue and corporate cronyism.

It's a perfect statement about the World Water Forum's agenda serving the rich and powerful while the poor are denied access to water.

A block of southern governments led by Uruguay is building support for an alternative, legitimate forum to be led by the United Nations.

Activists against privatization plans at the forum were met with police aggression.

Initiatives like the CEO Water Mandate allow corporations, not elected officials, to exert greater influence and control over global water policy.

The fifth World Water Forum has just kicked off and pressure groups are ready to make sure private companies don't hijack public control.

The water privatization fever is hitting Turkey, just a year before the country will host the World Water Forum.