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Stop water wars
Add your face to our online petition to get the government to support the UN convention on watercourses, and help to make sure that the world’s water resources remain a source of life and not death.

Tell the EU to go public on water: Write to the Development Commissioner now and demand that he support public-public partnerships.

Write a message of solidarity to the people of Tanzania, as the case brought against the Tanzanian government by Biwater is dragged through the courts.

Past Actions

Read about past WDM campaigning success stories.

Severn Trent

Supporters emailed Severn Trent to urge the company to withdraw from a Nepal water privatisation contract.

Hilary Benn

Supporters wrote to the Secretary of State for International Development to ask him to give real political and financial support to the global water crisis.

Pricewaterhouse Coopers

Supporters wrote to PwC to demand that they withdraw from a consultancy contract unless the UK government drops the water component.
Read more about Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC)

Water for all

Supporters wrote to the UK government, and demanded that they publicly support an enforceable human right to water.

Water for all: Early Day Motion 2073

211 MPs signed our EDM calling for public solutions to the global water crisis.

Biwater

Under pressure from WDM, UK water company, Biwater Plc, has withdrawn from the bidding process for a controversial water privatisation in Ghana.
Read more about Biwater

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