Water

Backgrounder
From Auckland's Water Pressure Group - everything you ever wanted to know about water privatization in Auckland.

Tribes Demand Control of Water
Jon Stevens, NZ Herald

Citizens Astounded At Govt Greenwash
Press Release: Takutai Moana Poneke Collective

Azurix v Argentina - Water Battles
Luke Eric Peterson, Investment Treaty News

Water rights market planned
The Nelson Mail

Water woes: Protests held in Mexico

Ministerial Declaration from 4th World Water Forum
Nick Buxton, Fundacion Solon

Bechtel to drop World Bank trade case over water revolt
David Barkin, Democracy Centre

 ICSID Ruling Favours Water Multinationals
Nick Buxton, Fundacion Solon

 K'iché Successfully Protest Water, Public Service Privatization Laws:
Protesters mobilize against privatization of natural resources in Guatemala
Rachel Ballester, Cultural Survival's Weekly Indigenous News

After the Election Comes the Deluge
Colin James, NZ Herald

The Price of Privatized "Development"
Uruguyans Learn from Bolivia, Not India
Saul Landau and Puja Patel

Running Dry: Is It Documentary or Corporate Propaganda?
Statement by Wenonah Hauter, director of Public Citizen's Water for All Campaign

U.S. Fails to Understand Growing Global and Domestic Water Crisis
Pacific Institute

Australia's water trouble a warning to big users
Andrew MacDonald, NZ Herald

Energy Company Pushes for Tradeable Water Rights
NZ Herald

Who Owns Your Drinking Water? The Struggle for Latin America's Water
Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke

Water wars: California's 'liquid gold' shouldn't be entrusted to private conglomerates
Joseph W. Cotchett, San Francisco Chronicle

Water Sector Privatization Looms (Indonesia): NGOs Warn of Risks
Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta Post

Untapped Market: The Coming Wars for Water

Tim Holt, TomPaine.com

 

The Battle for Water

Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, YES! Magazine

 

Stockton Reverses Water Privatization Contract

Media Reports and a Media Release

 

Water as a Human Right

Submission to Human Rights Commission – Water Pressure Group

 

Water report criticizes privatization

 Study finds sale of treatment operations led to waterborne diseases, massive waste in Canada

Martin Mittelstaedt, Globe & Mail

 

Is Metrowater Gouging Auckland ratepayers?

If so, why? - Auckland Water Pressure Group

 

Building the water bill boycott to dump Metrowater!

How to join the boycott - Auckland Water Pressure Group

 

A sleeping giant is about to awaken

Press Release: Water Pressure Group (Auckland)

 

"Break the Meter - Enjoy the Water" (South Africa)

Francois L'Écuyer, Alternatives Newspaper

 

Job losses at Scottish Water may hit 1,500

Watertech Online

 

Water Privatization in Mexico

Report from activist

 

A bid ... for water

Report from Kyoto by Darryl D'Monte, The Hindu Sunday Magazine

 

New Report: Water under Siege in Iraq

CESR

 

New Report: Water under Siege in Iraq

CESR

 

Metrowater to Hit New Homes with $2250 Bill (Auckland, NZ)

Bernard Orsman, The Herald

 

Water & Politics in the Fall of Suharto

ICIJ

 

Water For Albania

World Bank – with comments from Jim Gladwin, of Auckland’s WPG

 

Consumer Advocates Challenge Detroit Cut-Offs

Sara Grusky, Public Citizen

 

Water Co. Proposes Increase

Stephen Wall, San Bernadino Sun

 

Suez to Sell UK Water Treatment Group

Watertech Online

 

RWE AG Completes Acquisition of American Water Works

Watertech Online

 

US Water Sale to go Through

Watertech Online

 

Vivendi Bids for Anglian Water

Watertech Online

 

NZ Govt Shows Contempt for Consultation

WPG Media Release

 

IMF Requires Privatization in Nicaragua

Public Citizen

 

Support Nicaragua’s Anti-Privatization Struggle

 

The Human Right to Water

Water Pressure Group Media Release (Auckland, NZ)

 

Bechtel Bites Back at Bolivia

Jim Schultz, Pacific News Service

 

Water & Local Government

Notes from an address by David Zwartz, Wellington City Councillor

 

Ruapehu Goes Private

News Report, and Open Letter to District Council

 

Open Letter to GM of United Water

 

Vivendi Roasted at WSSD

Public Citizen

 

Pre-Paid Water Meters

Sign-on Letter

 

Who Owns Water?

Maude Barlowe and Tony Clarke, The Nation

 

A World Without Water

 

Water Multinationals Admit They Can’t Deliver to Poor

 

Azurix vs Argentina

 

Protest at Water Privatization Conference

 

Vivendi’s Problems

 

Stop the Corporate Takeover of Our Water

Excellent overview of US developments in water privatization - Jim Hightower

 

Metrowater Propaganda

A response to a PR offensive by Auckland’s “most hated company”

 

Farmers Move to Save Canada’s Water

 

No-One is Responsible!

For water quality

 

Open Letter to Director-General of Health

… about Waikato water

 

EU ‘Requests’ on Water

The Water Pressure Group’s take on recent revelations

 

No Lamb for Water Privatization Deals!

 

Water, water everywhere …

 

Don’t Pay Your Water Bill

 

What A Great March!

 

Auckland’s Woes

Media Comment

 

Letter of Complaint

To CEO, Akld City Council – includes a report from THAT meeting …

 

Spectres from the Past Re-emerge

Thought Bill Birch and his obsessions had disappeared?

 

Letter From the PM

Everything’s OK –  honest!

 

Heads in the Sand

Bill Rosenberg warns about the privatization process

Bechtel Caught Lying in Bolivia

Successful Picket

Outside Sandra Lee’s Office in Auckland

Bolivia – Rates Increases Spark Protests

Open Letter To Sandra Lee
From the Water Pressure Group

RESIGN!
Call for Sandra Lee to resign

Resident Refuses to Pay Water Bill
Cites the Treaty of Waitangi

Mauritius Holds Out
Against privatization on all fronts