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The Deconstructing Discourse and Activist Retooling Program Lecture on China |
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A Roundtable Discussion on Community and Civil Society Struggles for Equitable Water Rights and Democratic Water Policies—Experiences from India and the Philippines
April 25, 2009, Saturday, 10 am to 2:30 pm
University Hotel, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Sponsored by: The Development Roundtable Series Thematic Working Group*
Water has become one of the hottest and most contested resources in the world today. Access to water, management of water supply and delivery systems, and control of the world’s freshwater resources are replete with economic and political struggles and conflicts. The stream of ‘battles’ for and over water has become a sudden rushing torrent. In different parts of the world, there are and have been a multitude of civil society, community and social movements’ struggles for “water justice”, of ensuring peoples’ and communities’ access to safe, affordable, and sustainable water (and sanitation services) for drinking, irrigation, recreation, fishing, cultural and other uses in an equitable, effective, and democratic way.
In the Philippines, for example, the struggles around the privatization of MWSS’ distribution/water service provision have focused on defending public interest, the right to sufficient, affordable, and clean water. Metro Manila’s water privatization, hailed as the biggest in Asia, has become an iconic example of failed privatization experiments— of how it has limited or impeded the access to water of marginalized sectors of society, especially the poor, and of how poor communities are standing up to stake their claims and rights. Struggles for empowering public and collective forms of water control and reclaiming public water through community-based water systems such as cooperatives and user-owned systems are being waged. These are fights to reclaim decision making powers from the hands of powerful elites and private water companies; against the adverse effects of privatization on water users, citizens, and workers.
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