Sustainable Water Management

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Sustainable Water Management

The Sustainable Water Campaign program is aimed at working collectively with representatives of different regions of the world directly concerned by water issues, and at developing reflection on such issues that will be disseminated by a global network of economic and political actors who will be able to define and public policies for the management of this essential resource for life on earth and make such policies viable.

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Proposal paper	List of Documents
Experience Reports	Participants and Interested Persons

:: Articles ::

Access to water: a right that cannot be dissociated from other human rights
:: Angélique KHALED :: February 2007 ::

The Montreal charter on drinking water and drainage, drawn up in June 1990 by non-governmental organizations, declared the right of access to water as an indefeasible right of the individual, and thereby concluded on the need to incorporate water policy in local development by involving the populations concerned, particularly women, in defining, carrying out and controlling projects. To prepare the international Conference of New-Delhi in September 1990 organized by the United Nations to close the "Decade on drinking water and drainage" (DIEPA) and to discuss the actions to be (...)

Report of the Latin American meeting of the Water workshop Tiquipaya, close to Cochabamba (Bolivia) June 9-12, 2001
:: Larbi Bouguerra :: February 2007 ::

Report of an international meeting of reflection, of experience exchange and of the workshop network reinforcement. It made possible to put into debate the proposal paper of the workshop and to widen and popularize the debate started in the electronic forum. Very interesting meetings and seizing testimonys which made it possible to take note of the reality of each one. Placed under the aegis of the "Consorcio Cordillera", the meeting gathered allies and friends of Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru as well as intervening parties of Mauritania, Tunisia and Canada. The set of their (...)

International organisations and privatization of water
:: Marie Mazalto :: February 2007 ::

My purpose is to explain how the international organizations are imposing the privatization policies to the governments and its populations. For that reason, I went to see how the policies of privatization of the water was developed in Bolivia During the eighties, the international organizations use the countries of the South as laboratory of new policies. The investors wanted absolutely to reactivate the economies and the governments to stabilize the political system. To establish such orientations, it was decided to conquer new markets by liberalizing the economies. All the sectors (...)

Water under the Combined Threat of Pollution and the Market :: February 2007 ::

To assure the necessities of water, you can increase the quantity of available water and learn how to use it in a less selfish way, without the purpose of benefit. In the beginning of the twenty-first century we need to promote a new society, a "water-saving society" The water is not an element like the others. It exists in finite quantity in our Blue Planet: this it is an unavoidable physical fact. This element is necessary for the Life and our body contains 70% of it. It is Indispensable for the Life - that of the bacteria, of the maggot or of the elephant - the water is irreplaceable (...)

Breakthroughs of the Mobilizing Program on Water :: February 2007 ::

List of breakthroughs of the working group on Sustainable Management of Water Water must remain a common asset of Humanity and this asset appeals to an inverse globalization that is based on unity. But, if water is an economic asset, it is, above all, a social asset. Equality of access to this common asset must be built and upheld. At the same time and without any saintliness, we conclude that water is essentially a policy problem. Documents ENFR18 ko, 2 pages24 ko, 2 (...)

Forum (closed) :: September 2001 ::

Seven recommendations for good water management :: September 2000 ::

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