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Water Privatization | Community Organizations | Video Media

ACCNovato Highlighted Media:

The Commonwealth Club of California (the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum have Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow discuss:

   The Privatization of Water (FORA TV - opens in new window) - This is a must see!!!!


About Water Privatization

Public Citizen

   Introduction – what can you do?

   Privatizers give up on big cities and go after small towns

   Veolia vs. Veracity

   Why Lee?

   Public-public water partnerships

   California - Water For All

   New Orleans Decision to End Privatization

   Massachusetts Community Rejects Privatization Scheme

   Sewerage Should Reject All Bids, Focus on Improving Public System

   Veolia Environnement: A Corporate Profile

   California Water: A Primer

Food and Water Watch

   Fact Sheets:

      Top 10: Why Water Privatization Fails

      Top 10 Reasons to Localize Water!

      Top 10 Ways Private Control of Water Wastes Public Resources

      Case Studies of Failed Water Privatizations

      Economic Failures of Private Water Systems

      The Price of Privatization: Stockton, CA

      A Closer Look: Veolia

      United Water: A Corporate Profile

      Public-Public Partnerships

      Communities to RWE: We Want Local Control

      Why the Country Needs Federal Funding for Water Infrastructure

      Underfunding Threatens Our Clean Water

   Reports:

      Water Privatization Threatens Workers, Consumers and Local Economies

      Money Down the Drain

      Water Privatization Fiascoes: Broken Promises and Social Turmoil

      Public-Public Partnerships: A Backgrounder on Successful Water/Wastewater Re-engineering Programs

      Two for the Road: An Update of the Companies Vying for Control of New Orleans' Water

      Costly Returns: How Corporations Could Profit Repairing the Nation’s Crumbling Infrastructure

      Faulty Pipes - Why Public Funding - Not Privatization - is the Answer for U.S. Water Systems

      Veolia Environnement: A Corporate Profile

      Aqua America: Strategies of a Water Profiteer

      The Future of American Water

      Double Trouble: Thames Water and OMI –– Two companies Stockton Could do Without

      Water for People and Place: Moving Beyond Markets in California Water Policy

      All Dried Up: How Clean Water is Threatened by Budget Cuts

      Liquid Assets: Enron's Dip into Water Business Highlights Pitfalls of Privatization

      Dried Up, Sold Out

      Reclaiming Public Assets: From Private to Public Ownership of Waterworks

      Challenging Corporate Investor Rule

   Other:

      Private vs. Public

      The Myth of Private Sector Financing: Global Water Corporations Seek New Public Hand-outs

      Water Infrastructure Financing Act Benefits Corporations at the Expense of Taxpayers

Pacific Institute

   Water Managers Must Look Beyond Privatization

Sierra Club

   Corporate Water Privatization

World Water Wars

   California Water Information

Global Policy Forum

   The New Economy of Water

Third World Traveler

   World Bank, WTO, and corporate control over water

Canadian Broadcasting

   Water For Profit

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Related Community Organizations

Concerned Citizens Coalition of Stockton

Felton FLOW - Friends of Locally Owned Water

Lucerne Community Water Organization

EFLOW - Emmaus For Locally Owned Water

Mark West Area Community Services Committee

Bluegrass FLOW - Friends of Locally Owned Water

Citizens to Save Our Sewers and Water

Montara Water and Sanitary District

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Videos and Other Media

The Commonwealth Club of California - the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum

   The Privatization of Water - a discussion with Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow (FORA TV - opens in new window)

Thirst - the Movie

   P.O.V. Thirst - Trailer (You Tube - opens in new window)

Liquid Assets - the Story of Our Water Infrastructure

   Liquid Assets Documentary Trailer (You Tube - opens in new window)

Flow - the Film

   FLOW - Official Theatrical Trailer (You Tube - opens in new window)

Blue Gold: World Water Wars - the Film

   Blue Gold - Trailer (You Tube - opens in new window)

World Development Movement

   Dirty Aid, Dirty Water (Google Video - opens in new window)

"Thirst" - about water

The Watershed Project

   The Watershed Project - Safe Water Saves Lives (You Tube - opens in new window)

007’s Water War Based in Reality, Not Fiction

Sweetwater Alliance

   Privatizing Our Water--Will the Air Be Next? (You Tube - opens in new window)

The Weebly Site

   "Water Rights and the Effects of Water Privatization (You Tube - opens in new window)

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