Useful Links --resources to help in the fight to protect the
human right to water--
International organisations & links
Food and Water
Watch
Works to challenge the corporate control and abuse of food and water
resources by empowering people to take action and by transforming the
public consciousness.
Blue Planet
Project
A
global inititiative working with partners around the world to achieve
water justice. Water justice is based on the right to water and on the
principles that water is a public trust and part of the global commons.
Public Services
International Research Unit
Researches
the privatisation and restructuring of public services around the
world, with special focus on water, energy, waste management, and
healthcare. It produces reports and maintains an extensive database on
multinational companies.
Particularly strong on its analysis of public-private partnerships and
promoting public-public partnerships as an alternative.
International reports
Fighting
water public-private partnerships
/ Council of Canadians
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?
Reclaiming Public Water: Achievements, Struggles and Visions from Around the World / Transnational Institute (TNI) and Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
Aotearoa organisations & links
Kapiti Water Action Group
Email them for information on the campiagn to stop metering and user-pays in the Kapiti region.
Auckland
Water Pressure Group & Papakura
Water Pressure Group
Neither site is kept up to date but provide a useful record of the
campaigns against water charges in Auckland City and a Public Private
Partnership in Papakura.
Peace
Movement Aotearoa Water page
Provides news and links on human rights to water issues, particularly
focuing on indigenous peoples' right to water.
Dev-Zone
Water page
A regularly updated portal of international links including reports and
analysis related to water. Has a particular focus on the Pacific.
Aotearoa reports
Water
Pressure: the implications of the General Agreement on Trade in
Services for Water Supply in New Zealand
Erika H.F. Toleman's 2002 thesis for her Otago University Bachelor of
Law with Honours degree.
Success stories - the return of the commons
'Prepaid water meters unconstitutional' Johannesburg
High Court Judge, May 2008. This decision is unfortunately being
appealed in the Court of Appeal from 23-25 February 2009.
Paris water will be returned to 100% public ownership in January 2010, July 2008, reported on PSIRU website
Water Activists slay corporate behemouth, California, July 2008
Bechtel, Bolivia resolve dispute, January 2006
- Right to Water, PO Box 9263,
Wellington, NZ, Email
us, This page last updated 20 February 2009
