Water Sector Debate

Reconstruction of Water Utility Sector

André MüllerElsa Ouvrard

Ipsit Dash

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Water Management

Public Private

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PrivateCons Pros

Efficient Management

Technical Expertise

Huge Investment

Water as Economic Good

Business Monopoly

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PublicCons Pro

Corruption

Bound Budgets (e.g..

African Nations)

Highly Chaos and

Snail paced (e.g..

India)

Public Participation

Water as Public

Commodity

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Effective Water Management

Local Participation & Critiques

Private Funding & Expertise

Public Management

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Contents

Water & Sanitation Issues

Different Approaches• EU position• International Aid

agencies and WWF

• International Water Institutions

Discussions

Water and sanitation issues – Global tendency

– More efficient management of water demand

– Participation of private sector companies

– Decentralized governance

The European Union position

Large variety of experiences of public and private water management

Water « an indispensable resource for the economy » « stronger role for the private water supply and sanitation » European Water Initiative

EU member states moving away from PPP

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International Aid Agencies

Sustaining Water as a

Human Right

Intervening Governance

through Privatization

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• How good is the implementation of plans..• Is it financing Water Crisis ???• Case Study by Navdanya on water privatization

projects in Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh & Rajasthan

Some for allAll for some

Water DemocracyWater Aparatheid

Water for lifeWater for Profit

Paradigm Shift

• Funding loans as conditionality for privatisation.• Non sustainable use of Water• Reduction of access to public utilities to a privileged access to industry and 24x7 supply for

rich urban areas. • Diversion of ground water from rural areas to urban areas, • Forcing governments to increase water tariffs, and to commodify water.• Failures-Sonia Vihar plant in Delhi, Veeranam project in Tamil Nadu.

Failure in bringing Water to PeopleSuccess in guaranteeing contracts & Profits to SUEZ, VIVENDI, BECHTEL.

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World Water Forum

• International meet by World Water Council, an International Think tank on Water Resource Management.

• Founded by CEO of Veolia, Members include IFIs, World Institutions and Major Players in Water Business

• Advocates symbiotic connections for a sustainable water management and dealing Water Crisis

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•1st WWF 97,MOROCCO

•joint vision for water,

life and environment

• 2nd WWF, Hague• World Water Vision and Associated Framework

of Action• Water privatisation and its direct results on the

society and gender

• 3rd WWF, Kyoto

• Financing Water infrastructure,

introducing Virtual Water

Forum & World Water Actions

Report

• 4th WWF, Mexico

• establishment of Asia-Pacific

Water Forum, launch of Water

Integrity Network

• publications on Right to water,

Financing Water for all, and

evaluation of MDG target 10 on

water supply and sanitation

• 5th WWF, Istanbul• Istanbul Water

Consensus• Turkish Government

venture of water privatization (~ 90 Billion $)

• 6th WWF, Marseilles• Ensure everyone’s wellbeing• Contribute to economic development• Keep the planet blue• Prioritizing the management of water

bodies through substantialinvestments and partnership

World Water Forums

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Alternative World Water Forum

• Motto -“Water for Life, Not for Profit”• Internationalisation of water battles;

empowering local stakeholders • Opposition against the capitalistic

globalization of water and sanitation services• Helps in bringing international solidarity to

local struggles and impacting global policy

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Issues• TURKEY Farmers’ fight for

control over local water resources in an international perspective

• AFRICA Landgrabbing and the control over water

• Arid Regions Water Strewardship

• EU European Water policy, corporate interests and the right to water

Results• ITALYimplementation of National Water Rights

Network

• AFRICA implementation of Continental Networks Water Rights

• Latin America, Africa, Europe, notably Francesubstantial decline in Water privatization

• bring international vigilante to the water privatization in Indonesia.

• A law banning privatization has been already

implemented inNetherlands. • It has also advocated for Access to Water as a

Fundamental Human Right which was subsequently

declared by UN on 29th July, 2010.

INTERNATIONAL WATER INSTITUTIONS

• SIWI, UNESCO, UN, Food&WaterWatch

• No direct statements on privatization

Why?

• UN General Assembly 2010Access to water and sanitation as a human right• UNESCO:

– Fragmentation of communities and households

• Food&Water Watch– Privatization as a barrier to human right– the adverse effects – Increase in water prizes poor people loose their access to

water and sanitation– Cost savings

• UN-Habitat– Contextual problems privatization does often not

provide a solution where public water utility fails

Discussion

• Contrasting opinion (Thirst)• Why do we ask the question whether we

privatize or not?• Privatization on the run around the world– Efficiacy, impacts and implications

• The golden way• PuP and PPP

Discussion

Consultation, Inclusion, endorsement

Discussion

Discontent + upheavals

Points to Ponder

• How can privatization include the poor? ( prices go up)

• Privatization is a big milestone – Who will own this world?

• Privatization as a reallocation of power – failures of the past

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