Essential action to our most essential resource final (1)

Essential action on our most essential resource: Critical new strategies to guarantee the human right to water

Tom KruseProgram Director

Democratic Practice – Global Governance

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Protecting water for the common good

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Maude BarlowNational Chairperson, Council of Canadians

Saving Our Blue Future: The Human Race Needs a New Water Ethic

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Shayda NaficyDirector, International Water Campaign

Moving the World Bank to divest



1. The problems with water privatization

2. The World Bank as a barrier to increased access

3. Current strategies to move the World Bank

4. Broader implications


The problems of water privatization


World Bank drives privatization

As a

• funder

• key door opener

• validator


Case study: Manila


The World Bank’s shifted approach


Even greater struggle for water




Create an internal wedge

• PLACEHOLDER


Create external pressure

World Bank 'gambling assets' by investing in private water firms


Precedent for moving the World Bank


We are winning


True solutions to the water crisis

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Essential action to our most essential resource final (1)