organised  by Reclaiming Public Water Network, Focus on Global South, Chennai Host Group: Dept. of HSC, IIT, Madras Water Engineers and Centre for Law, Policy & HR Studies

meeting of activists, public water managers/operators and trade unions focuses on existing and emerging water "alternatives"(to corporate-driven privatization and its various forms).
In particular, the workshop will be a space/venue:

• for understanding and analyzing the water situations in the Asia region, particularly, in terms of alternatives,
• identify common issues and concerns among different water players in the region, and a collective framework on water (as a resource, human right, and common good);
• towards arriving at a common understanding of water alternatives (e.g. to corporate-driven privatization) within the context of democratization (e.g. Public-Public Partnerships);
• to identify possible areas of cooperation among trade unions, civil society groups/water rights advocates, and public utility managers, for collaboration, complementary and concerted action in the region; and
• visit and learn from the democratization experiment being conducted in the Tamil Nadu’s state water board and in the irrigation/agricultural engineering department.