Launching of the Campaign: Water is a Global Public Good

01/04/2021

Mar.27, 2021
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23 March 2021. Water continues to be a commodity, ransacked, subjected to devastating commercial and financial domination. Water is diseased everywhere, polluted, exploited to the point of exhaustion. Rivers are dying, lakes are drying up. More than a third of the world’s groundwater is unfit for human use. More than a thousand children under the age of 6 die every day from diseases caused by the lack of water or its poor quality. 2.1 billion people do not know what clean water is. 4.2 billion people do not have a “safe” toilet.

Today, there is no stopping the brutal and predatory takeover of the Earth’s water by money-hungry private interests.

On March 22, 2021, the official World Water Day, the Agora of the Inhabitants of the Eartha is launching a campaign to fight for water-a global public-good.

The goal: to stop the devastation of water perpetrated by powerful global oligarchies that continue to treat water for life (once a common good) as an increasingly scarce and therefore profitable “commodity”. By listing water on the stock exchange on 7 December, these true predators have explicitly confirmed that they have no intention of changing their plundering of water and nature. In the context of growing scarcity, water insecurity has become a feature of life on our Earth. Let’s stop the plunderers.

The campaign has three main objectives:

– Freeing water from predatory finance, starting with banning publicly traded companies from speculating on water, necessary for life, water for life, and turning over the management of water services at the watershed level to a public community water government;