essential action to our most essential resource
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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
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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
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