Changing the Direction of Water Policy - Conference 14th-15th November, 2002 -- Spectre Magazine

CHANGING THE DIRECTION OF WATER POLICY
Local control vs. privatisation
Basic need vs. tradeable good

14-15 November 2002
European Parliament, Brussels (ASP 1G3)

Around the world, multinational corporations are at one of the final frontiers for profit making: privatising water services. To discuss what's involved, the European United Left/Nordic Green Left Group in the European Parliament is hosting a conference. This will focus on the fight of ordinary people and trade unions to keep water as a public resource controlled locally. We will hear about local experiences from Ghana, France and Spain. Global activist Shiney Varghese will tell us the latest on the World Trade Organisation and other international negotiations that set the rules.

Chairpersons: Laura GONZALEZ-ALVAREZ and Jonas SJÖSTEDT (Members of the European Parliament)

Confirmed speakers include:

Riccardo PETRELLA: advisor to the European Commission and Professor at the University of Louvain in Belgium. He is also President of the Group of Lisbon and the author and editor of several books on the global economy.

Shiney VARGHESE: member of the 'Policy Action Group on Water' of the Commission on Globalisation (World Forum) and co-chair of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UN CSD) Freshwater Caucus.

Raymond AVRILLIER: member of Association pour la démocratie, l'écologie et la solidarité (ADES) and author of "Le système CARIGNON" éditions La Découverte (1995).

Barzini TANOH: representative of the Ghana National Coalition Against the Privatisation of Water

Interpretation will be available in the official languages of the European Union.
Admission is free of charge
To register: Carolina Falk +32 284 4572 or cfalk@europarl.eu.int

CHANGING THE DIRECTION OF WATER POLICY Local control vs. privatisation Basic need vs. tradeable good

CHANGING THE DIRECTION OF WATER POLICY
Local control vs. privatisation
Basic need vs. tradeable good