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The Third World Water Forum

An estimated 8,000 people from all over the world gathered in Kyoto March 16-22 for the 3rd World Water Forum. This forum was dominated by a corporate-controlled agenda that supports public-private partnerships as the wave of the future. Privatization is emerging as the "solution" to global water scarcity and is being pushed by multinational corporations that stand to profit from this precious resource.

But an expanding network of groups and individuals around the world are demanding that water be considered a human right, not a profit-generating commodity. At the forum, representatives from public interest, human rights, and consumer advocacy organizations effectively split the World Water Council "consensus" on a corporate model of water governance and worked to promote a new democracy model of water governance. These representatives came together as the "Water is Life" coalition.

• Civil Society Vision Statement
• Indigenous Peoples Kyoto Water Declaration
• Resisting the Corporate Tidal Wave
• The Myth of Private Sector Financing: a critique of the Report of the World Panel on Financing Water Infrastructure
• Read Daily Updates from Kyoto here!
• To read a backgrounder on the World Water Forum, click here.

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