Alternatives
Water is a public trust; it belongs to everyone. But water privatization is sneaking through the back door in the form of public-private partnerships. What does it mean? What can you do?
- What is wrong with privatization?
- What are the alternatives?
- Promoting Alternatives, Building Solutions: An interview with Anil Naidoo
- Bechtel vs. Bolivia: The People Win!
- An Island in a Sea of Privatization: Marcela Olivera reflects on Cochabamba's water war, five years later
- Troubled Waters in First Nations Communities: Private companies cash in on failing water systems
Stop Water Privatisation! Alternatives to the PPIAF
As the World Bank agency, the Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) met in the Hague on 23-24 May, hundreds of civil society representatives called on donors to reject the Facility's role in promoting water privatisation and fund public alternatives instead. Read More »
Italy Withdraws From Controversial World Bank Privatisation Fund
The Italian government withdrew its support from the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), a highly controversial element of the World Bank's water privatisation agenda, on the eve of PPIAF's annual meeting of donors in The Hague, the Netherlands. Read More »
"Six years ago the people of Cochabamba won their revolt over water with courage and commitment. Today we have all won the water revolt's second and final round, with a persistence that was truly global and that could not be stopped. Another world is indeed possible."
Bechtel vs. Bolivia: The People Win!
