Essential Action to Our Most Essential Resource

Essential action on our most essential resource: Critical new strategies to guarantee the human right to water

Tom KruseProgram Director, Democratic

Practice–Global Governance

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Protecting water for the common good

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Maude BarlowNational Chairperson, Council of Canadians

Shayda NaficyDirector, International Water Campaign

Moving the World Bank to divest

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Moving the World Bank to divest

1. The problems with water privatization

2. The World Bank as a barrier to increased access

3. Current strategies to move the World Bank

4. Broader implications

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The problems of water privatization

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World Bank drives privatization

As a

• funder

• key door opener

• validator

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Case study: Manila

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The World Bank’s shifted approach

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Even greater struggle for water

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Moving the World Bank to divest

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Create an internal wedge

• PLACEHOLDER

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External pressure

World Bank 'gambling assets' by investing in private water firms

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Precedent for moving the World Bank

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We are winning

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True solutions to the water crisis

• PLACEHOLDER

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