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What Does the Global Water Justice Movement Advocate?
The global water justice movement advocates for community-led solutions to the water crisis. We uphold water as the basic element of all life on the planet and as a fundamental and inalienable human right. We reject all forms of privatization and declare that the management and control of water must be public, social, cooperative, participatory, equitable, and not for profit; we call for the democratic and sustainable management of ecosystems and the preservation of the water cycle through the protection and proper management of watersheds and environment.

We oppose the dominant economic model that prescribes privatization, commercialization and corporatization of public water and sanitation services. We will counter this type of destructive and non-participatory public sector reform, having seen the outcomes for poor people as a result of rigid cost-recovery practices and the use of pre-paid meters.

Some of our achievements include:

  • Reclaiming public utilities that had been privatized in Uruguay, Bolivia, Argentina, Canada, Tanzania, the United States, France and other locations;

  • Fostering and implementing public-public partnerships between water and sanitation utilities in numerous places around the world;

  • Forcing the bottled water industry into a loss of revenue;

  • Coming together in collective simultaneous activities during Blue October and the Global Action Week;

  • Formal recognition of the human right to water in several national constitutions and laws;

  • And hosting the PeopleÕs Water Forum 2009 in Istanbul where for the first time, the president of the United Nations General Assembly addressed the World Water Forum in a statement read by his special advisor on water, Maude Barlow.

    As affirmed at the 2009 World Social Forum in BelŽm, Brazil, we are committed to strengthening the strategic alliance between water movements and movements for land, food and climate. We also commit to continue building networks and new social alliances, and to involve both local authorities and parliamentarians who are determined to defend water as a common good and to reaffirm the right to fresh water for all human beings and nature. Further, we encourage public water and sanitation utilities to unite in establishing national associations and regional networks to advance knowledge sharing.

    We celebrate our achievements and we look forward for our continued collaboration across countries and continents!

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