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Water Campaign
Misleading “CEO Water Mandate” Threatens Global CommonsMisleading “CEO Water Mandate” Threatens Global Commons Updated: 4/4/08 On March 20, a letter was delivered to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in New York urging him to withdraw his support from the CEO Water Mandate - a voluntary initiative promoted as a way for corporations to make progress toward protecting water resources. Laura Roskos of US WILPF was among leaders from more than 125 environmental, public health, water justice, human rights and corporate accountability organizations in 35 countries who signed the letter. The Letter was delivered by Tony Clarke of the Polaris Institute (Ottawa, CA) and others to coincide with the U.N.'s World Water Day on March 22 to call attention to the threats posed by corporate control of public water resources. read more ...
Submitted by organic on 4 April 2008 - 11:00am.
Cape Cod Takes Bottled Water to the Streets
Cape Cod raises awareness about the wasteful nature of bottled water. read more ...
Submitted by wilpf on 18 May 2007 - 11:26am.
Water As International CommercePreventing Massive Water Transfers By Louis-Gilles Francoeur As of today, environmental, social, and union groups from all over Canada will try to block a North American pact on Canada's water resources and other natural wealth that a handful of private sector oligarchs and the governments of Canada, the United States and Mexico are preparing behind closed doors in the framework of the North American Future 2025 Project. For the Conseil des Canadiens [Council of Canadians] and the Coalition Eau Secours [Coalition for Water Aid] - two organizations that bring together dozens of union, social and environmental agencies - the Calgary meeting, which will bring together the partners in this project to "continentalize" resources, is, in reality, nothing but a disguised way for the United States to appropriate Canada's water resources, just as the country has already taken control of 50 percent of the Canadian gas and oil sectors - 70 percent of the production of which now feeds the energy bulimia of our southern neighbors. Yesterday, the two big social and environmental coalitions partially divulged documents that describe the objectives of the closed meeting in Calgary. It is clear from the documents that the session is not an exploratory meeting between important theoreticians, as its promoters have asserted, but rather a meeting for preparation of policies that the three countries' private sector representatives are about to submit to their governments in the beginning of the fall.
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Submitted by wilpf on 1 May 2007 - 1:34pm.
Download Water Petitions!One of WILPF's campaign initiatives is to pressure the UN Human Rights Council to create a binding convention on Water as a Human Right. We've created a petition to send to the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights demanding implementation and accountability of the Human Right to Water. Click here to sign our online petition! Download and collect signatures here! The Water Campaign is also working to Boycott the Bottle! Bottled water is expensive, wasteful and toxic, and not so pure! Say no to bottled water. read more ...
Submitted by wilpf on 24 April 2007 - 12:06pm.
A Human Right to WaterThe WILPF Save the Water Campaign calls for the United Nations to pass a binding Convention on the Human Right to Water. This letter, of which WILPF is a signatory, was sent to to the Human Rights Council, urging the High Commissioner to support the Human Right to Water. read more ...
Submitted by wilpf on 17 April 2007 - 3:14pm.
Fast Track drains our democracy... Defeat Fast Track Postcard Now Available for DownloadWater is a human and earth right, not a commodity to be bought and sold. Free trade deals like NAFTA, CAFTA and WTO/GATS put our public water commons on the market for private profit, and threaten the availability of safe and affordable drinking water for all. The Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) or “Fast Track” process allows the White House to negotiate and sign free trade deals that deny Congress and We, the People, a voice. Free trade deals override national and local sovereignty. We need just and democratic trade that respects the rights of communities and nature. read more ...
Submitted by wilpf on 6 April 2007 - 4:18pm.
Don’t Trade Away Our Water! Defeat Fast Track!Defeat Fast Track Postcard Now Available for download
Fast Track drains our democracy... Say No To Bottled WaterCape Cod Takes Bottled Water to the Streets
Cape Cod raises awareness about the wasteful nature of bottled water. read more ...
Submitted by wilpf on 18 May 2007 - 11:26am.
Water and Trade
Water as International Resource
"Now, as the two citizens' organizations note, by NAFTA's provisions, water becomes a commercial good as soon as it becomes - even for a single time - the object of a financial transaction between two parties from different countries. After that, no government will ever be able to regulate it again without that becoming a barrier to free trade. For the last few years, several legal scholars have confirmed that Canadian governments will lose their jurisdiction over the management of their water in favor of companies' priority rights to exploit them." Le Devoir 26 April 2007 GATS Resources read more ...
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