There is a pressing need to ensure adequate attention to sanitation, Fivas and 37 other international organizations call for in this statement to the UN.
UN must remember its commitments to the human right to water
Fivas and 86 other organizations are urging UN member states participating in the development of the Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that stand-alone goals on the right to water and sanitation are included.
The water bill that came from above
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.
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.
Civil Society Statement Marseille 2012
Global water justice movement call to action for governments on the implementation of the human right to water
Dialogue of the Deaf
The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) is behind us. At the Summit about 21,000 delegates including 140 heads of states/ governments gathered in swanky Sandton convention center in Johannesburg from 26th Aug to 4th September.