NGOs Ask Donors to Drop World Bank Water Privatization

Environment News Service, May, 2007 by staff

THE HAGUE, The Netherlands (ENS) — --> More than 138 civil society groups and trade unions from 48 countries are urging donor governments to withdraw their support for an agency of the World Bank determined to privatize the supply and delivery of water. The campaigners say that water, like air, is so essential to life that access to it is a human right, and water should not be treated as a commodity.

In an open letter, groups argue that the bias of the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility, PPIAF, towards private sector "solutions" to water access represents a poor use of aid money. PPIAF works in a range of sectors including transport, and telecommunications, but this open letter is directed towards the agency's activities in the water sector.

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