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Tanzania wins legal battle against British water company
11 January 2008
City Water Services, a subsidiary of British-based water company Biwater, has lost an international legal case for breaching its contract to deliver water and sanitation services in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania between 2003 and 2005. The contract with City Water was issued following a controversial water privatisation, supported by the UK government.
Tanzania wins legal battle against British water company
Four billion people live in countries threatened by water wars
29 November 2007
Nearly four billion people (two thirds of the world’s population) live in countries where there is serious political tension over lakes and rivers that cross international borders. Climate change and over-use are increasing the pressure on water and the World Development Movement is today launching a campaign calling on the government to ‘Stop Water Wars’.
Four billion people live in countries threatened by water wars
Water campaigner visits South Africa
15 November 2007
On Tuesday, Vicky Cann, the World Development Movement’s water expert, travelled to South Africa for the first African Water Network meeting.
Water campaigner visits South Africa
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Victory for campaigners as Severn Trent pull out of Nepal water privatisation bid
24 May 2007
Anti-poverty campaigners from the World Development Movement (WDM) today welcomed the decision of the Nepalese government to resist international pressure to sign a water privatisation contract with UK-based company Severn Trent Water International (STWI) for Kathmandu’s water supply.
Victory for campaigners as Severn Trent pull out of Nepal water privatisation bid
133 groups urge rich countries to pull the plug on World Bank’s push for water privatisation
15 May 2007
Press Release from the World Development Movement on behalf of Corporate Europe Observatory, FIVAS, Friends of the Earth International, Transnational Institute
133 groups urge rich countries to pull the plug on World Bank’s push for water privatisation
Severn Trent urged to withdraw Nepal water privatisation bid
11 May 2007
Anti-poverty campaigners from the World Development Movement today called for Severn Trent Water International to withdraw its water privatisation bid in Nepal.
Severn Trent urged to withdraw Nepal water privatisation bid
UK water company takes one of world's poorest countries to court
16 April 2007
Anti-poverty campaigners today condemned the UK water company Biwater for suing Tanzania, one of the poorest countries in the world. They also criticised the secretive nature of the case. The court case being heard by the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) begins in the Hague on Monday 16 April.
UK water company takes one of world's poorest countries to court
Biwater, back off! call by local anti-poverty campaigners
5 April 2007
On Wednesday 11 April 2007, anti-poverty campaigners from the World Development Movement (WDM) are to depict Dorking-based water company Biwater as an aggressive bully beating up poverty-stricken Tanzania in a boxing match behind closed doors.
Biwater, back off! call by local poverty campaigners
Campaign Success: Benn’s support for public water sector aid welcomed
21 March 2007
Today’s announcement by the Department for International Development that it will support the development of public-public partnerships in the water sector is a real step forward.
Benn's support for public water sector aid welcomed
The clock is ticking for aid donors on World Water Day
20 March 2007
A new calculation produced by the World Development Movement shows that by 00.01 hours on Thursday 22 March – World Water Day – 392,000 children will have died from drinking dirty water and inadequate sanitation in 2007. This equals 20 UK primary schools being wiped out, every single day.
The clock is ticking for aid donors on World Water Day
Going public can solve the global water crisis: Report
19 March 2007
Public water providers need to be at the heart of efforts to tackle the global water crisis, say anti-poverty campaigners the World Development Movement in a report released to mark World Water Day, 22 March.
Going public can solve the global water crisis
Anti-poverty protestors 'clean-up' Severn Trent
15 March 2007
Kathmandu-based Gopal Siwakoti ‘Chintan’, coordinator of the Water and Energy Users' Federation-Nepal, today condemned Severn Trent Water International for failing to meet with him and anti-poverty campaigners from the World Development Movement.
Anti-poverty protestors 'clean-up' Severn Trent water
Victory for UK campaigners as Norway abandons controversial water privatisation scheme
26 February 2007
Norway has withdrawn from a controversial scheme that funds consultants to advise poor countries on the privatisation of public services including water, after a damning report by Britain’s World Development Movement (WDM) and the Norwegian Association of International Water Studies (FIVAS).
Victory for UK campaigners as Norway abandons controversial water privatisation
UK wastes millions of pounds of aid on failed water privatisation in Guyana
19 February 2007
The Guyanese authorities have just cancelled a five-year water management contract with Severn Trent Water International (STWI) citing the company’s failure to meet five out of the seven objectives in the contract.
UK wastes millions of pounds of aid on failed water privatisation in Guyana
African coalition rejects water privatisation
29 January 2007
Campaigners from over 40 African countries have condemned international aid donors and governments that promote 'private sector participation' and commercialisation as the solution to Africa’s water crisis.
read: African coalition rejects water privatisaton
Biwater bid to suppress comment criticised
11th December 2006
Manoeuvres by a British water company to suppress public discussion of their legal dispute with a developing country government over a collapsed water privatisation scheme have been criticised by global justice campaigners.
Read more: Biwater bid to suppress comment
Over £30 million of UK aid money spent on funding body for privatisation consultants
26th November 2006
Britain’s Department for International Development (DFID) has channelled over £30 million of its aid through an institution designed to pay consultants to push privatisation in poor countries according to a report released today
Read more: 30 million of UK aid spent on consultants
UK government recognises the human right to water!
14th November 2006
On the 9th November 2006 the UK government formally recognised that water is a basic human right.
Read more: UK government recognises the human right to water
UN report boosts public water
9th November 2006
The 2006 United Nations Human Development Report’s recognition of the critical role of public finance and the public sector in delivering water to the world’s poorest communities has further undermined the case for water privatisation in the developing world, the World Development Movement said today.
Read more: UN report boosts public water
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