2012 World Water Forum

The Council of Canadians has been challenging the World Water Forum for more than 12 years. The 6th World Water Forum will take place March 12-17 in Marseilles, France.

What is the World Water Forum? Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow explains, “The World Water Forum is convened by big business lobby organizations like the Global Water Partnership, the World Bank, and the leading for-profit water corporations on the planet. The discussions focus on how companies can benefit from selling water to markets around the world. While governments are present, they are not in charge.”

How will we counter this agenda? The Council of Canadians is participating in the organizing of the upcoming Alternative World Water Forum (in French, Forum Alternative Mondial de l’Eau, or FAME), which will take place on March 14-17, 2012. We will also be launching right to water reports from several countries that build on Barlow's Our Right to Water: A People’s Guide to Implementing the United Nations’ Recognition of the Right to Water and Sanitation. And we will be organizing an 'Activist Summit to Implement the Human Right to Water and Sanitation' to strengthen the global water movement's ability to implement these hard-won rights.

March 14-17 ALTERNATIF WORLD WATER FORUM WATER FOR LIFE, NOT FOR PROFIT From March 14 to 17, 2012, the Alternative World Water Forum (FAME or Forum Alternatif Mondial de l’Eau) will be held in Marseilles, France. This event is being organized by associations and movements; trade unions, NGOs, citizens and local authorities from all over the world. Download: FAME Leaflet If you would like to contribute to FAME or find out more about how you can participate: www.fame2012.org Facebook – FAME Alternative World Water Forum international@fame2012.org ------------------------------------ Du 14 au 17 Mars FORUM ALTERNATIF MONDIALDE L’EAU L’EAU SOURCE DE VIE PAS DE PROFIT Du 14 au 17 mars 2012, le Forum Alternatif Mondial de l’Eau se tiendra à Marseille. Cet événement est organisé par des associations, mouvements, syndicats et ONG, citoyens et autorités locales du monde entier. Télécharger : Dépliant FAME Si tu veux contribuer au FAME ou avoir plus d’information sur comment participer : www.fame2012.org/fr Facebook – FAME Alternative World Water Forum Twitter @famemarseille Contact : contactpaca@fame2012.org

Key blogs

• NEWS: The ‘Indignados’ take aim at the World Water Forum, March 12-17
• UPDATE: A global battle for water justice in the homeland of water privatization
• UPDATE: The Council of Canadians challenges the World Water Forum
  
• UPDATE: A right to water for the 99%
  
• UPDATE: Prepatory meeting for the Alternative Water Forum in March 2012

More blogs

• For more blogs on the upcoming World Water Forum, please go here.

Media

• World Water Forum attendance reportedly down as activists ramp up preparations for Alternative Forum, February 14, 2012

Past interventions
For more on our past interventions, please see:

• 5th World Water Forum, Istanbul, 2009
  
• 4th World Water Forum, Mexico City, 2006
  
• 3rd World Water Forum, Kyoto, 2003
  
• 2nd World Water Forum, The Hague, 2000

More information

• The website for the Forum Alternative Mondial de l’Eau (alternative water forum) is www.fame2012.org.

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