Environmental Justice

The ABC’s of Water Privatization in America

October 14, 2008

  The World Bank has predicted that by the year 2025, two-thirds of the world’s population will run short of fresh drinking water. As supplies become scarce, water will take on unprecedented market value. Fortune magazine dubbed water the “oil of the 21st century,” but, unlike gasoline, its real value is incalculable. No living being...
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Water: A Women’s Issue

October 14, 2008

Women and men have a different relationship to water. For women, water implies a work overload, since women are responsible for their families’ water supply. These sentiments were shared by many women from Latin America, Europe and Africa at the IV World Water Forum, which was held in Mexico City March 16-22. “To live...
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Water a Basic Human Right; World Faces Water Scarcity

October 14, 2008

Interview with ANIL NAIDOO Blue Planet Project April 2006 Frontline Article   Recently, you were leading the protests outside the World Water Forum in Mexico, of which Coca- Cola was a big sponsor. Can you tell us more about the forces that control the Forum, what they aim to achieve and why you are...
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