In Malawi, like many countries undergoing neo-liberal water reforms, policies have been endorsed and signed into law by national governments with very little engagement of the actual water users. Bills for irrigation water were sent out to Water Users Associations without the necessary collaboration and local participation.
Human Trafficking and Prostitution Scandal Threatens Belo Monte Dam
Dam-building consortium questioned around project and sex slavery link in Brazil.
Water Security – Fighting With Water Guns
Fresh water, the world’s most precious resource has over the ages been the reason, at least in some part, behind many regional and transboundary conflicts. There is no known substitute for fresh water and it plays an integral part to all our ecological and societal functions.
In Our Image: Norway’s role in the global hydropower industry
The report presents the scope of Norwegian state and public actors involved in hydropower internationally, including publicly-owned Statkraft and the state development finance institution Norfund. The report presents cases and experiences from Norwegian projects in Africa, Latin-America and Asia.
From privatisation to corporatisation
The report explores the development within neoliberal policy on urban water services in developing countries. The report calls for the water justice movement to update and adjust its strategy, in order to counter the neoliberal tactical shift towards corporatisation.
Civil Society Statement Marseille 2012
Global water justice movement call to action for governments on the implementation of the human right to water