[WATERFORALL] New issue of Defend the Global Commons - Jan 2005

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" Maj Fiil-Flynn " <mfiil

 

[WATERFORALL] Defend the Global Commons - Jan 2005

 

 

 

News from Public Citizen's Water For All Campaign

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New issue of Defend the Global Commons - Jan 2005

 

Download the new issue of Defend the Global Commons on

www.citizen.org/cmep/defend - also available in Spanish and

Portuguese. For more

background information go to www.wateractivist.org

 

Featured in this issue:

 

Uruguay votes " yes " for water sovereignty

With 1,440,000 votes, Uruguayans supported the constitutional reform to

defend the right to water by rejecting privatization. Instead they

voted to protect water as a public good, to be managed in a participatory

and sustainable manner.

http://www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/cmep_Water/reports/uruguay/articles.cfm?ID=128\

71

 

GHANA: The struggle to protect Ghanaian water as a common good

http://www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/cmep_Water/reports/ghana/articles.cfm?ID=12838

 

U.S.: Citizens spark new challenges to U.S. privatizers at local,

federal levels

http://www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/us/municipal/articles.cfm?ID=12874

 

INDONESIA: Public water for maximum benefit

http://www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/cmep_Water/reports/indonesia/articles.cfm?ID=1\

2853

 

South Africa policies challenge the constitutional right to water

http://www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/cmep_Water/reports/southafrica/articles.cfm?ID\

=12868

 

GUAM: Diary of a budding water activist

http://www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/us/municipal/articles.cfm?ID=12841

 

BOTTLED WATER: Inside the bottle

http://www.citizen.org/documents/InsideTheBottle.pdf

 

MEXICO: Citizens organize again Aguas de Barcelona in Saltillo

http://www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/cmep_Water/reports/mexico/articles.cfm?ID=1285\

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In short:

Challenging Suez in La Paz/El Alto, Bolivia

http://www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/cmep_Water/reports/bolivia/articles.cfm?ID=128\

45

 

Small farmers in Bolivia win passage of irrigation law

http://www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/cmep_Water/reports/bolivia/articles.cfm?ID=128\

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Groups plot strategies against water privatization in Nigeria

http://www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/cmep_Water/reports/nigeria/articles.cfm?ID=128\

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No benefits from water privatization in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

http://www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/cmep_Water/reports/tanzania/articles.cfm?ID=12\

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On Human Rights Day, leaders of women's organizations in Peru say " no "

to water privatization

http://www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/cmep_Water/reports/peru/articles.cfm?ID=12865

 

 

 

Maj Fiil-Flynn

Coordinator

Water for All Campaign

Public Citizen

215 Pennsylvania Av SE

Washington DC 20003

Ph. +1.202.588.1000

Ph. (dir) +1.202.454.5178

Fax +1.202.547.7392

mfiil

www.wateractivist.org

 

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