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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 533: SPECIAL ISSUE: WATER AND PRIVATISATION The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features AFRICA: ACCESS TO WATER AND PRIVATISATION Why proclaim access to water a fundamental human right? Jacques Cambon Despite UN recognition of access ‘to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights,’ it is a right that is far from being realised in most parts of the world, writes Jacques Cambon. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/73860 ****** THE WATER CRISIS IN AFRICAN CITIES Michel Makpenon Access to running water remains in a state of crisis for a huge number of people across Africa, writes Michel Makpenon. With growing urbanisation across the continent, African cities will need the political determination to ensure sustainable water resources based on social need rather than commercial concerns, he stresses. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/73836 ****** GHANA’S QUEST TO QUENCH ITS THIRST Alhassan Adam Ghana has a long history of struggle against the inequitable allocation of water - beginning with protests against colonial water policy and, more recently, with opposition to water privatisation that began in the 1990s. Alhassan Adam writes about the history, the challenge to privatisation and the road ahead. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/73856 ****** THE COMMODIFICATION OF WATER AND LAND IN MALI Sékou Diarra Mali’s Dogon have traditionally seen water as a source of life and a public good, with the right to water ‘a prerequisite to all other human rights.’ Now the privatisation of water threatens to exclude citizens from managing their most precious resource, leaving ‘the task with a commercially minded technocracy’, says Sékou Diarra. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/73861 ****** WATER PRIVATISATION: SENEGAL AT THE CROSSROADS Olivier Petitjean and Elimane Diouf While the Senegalese government wishes to ‘disengage financially from the water sector’, it is precisely the previous public management of water that has begun to improve infrastructure and people’s access to the resource. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/73837 ****** WATER MANAGEMENT REFORM IN RURAL AREAS OF SENEGAL Moussa Diop Changes to the water sector in Senegal that have seen a disengagement of the state and the promotion of the private sector have had unforeseen effects, writes Moussa Diop. Increased waste in domestic water consumption is one of the contradictions, while existing social relations also have a significant impact on the water delivery environment. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/73859 ****** POLLUTION: AFRICA’S REAL RESOURCE CURSE? Khadija Sharife A Tanzanian gold mine leaks polluted water into a major river. A mining town in Zambia is listed as amongst the most polluted places in the world. And a water pollution problem in South Africa that is caused by mining threatens national water resources. Khadija Sharife examines the hidden costs behind Africa's resource extraction reputation. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/73857 ****** PUBLIC-PUBLIC PARTNERSHIPS IN WATER An overview David Hall Donors and development banks have largely focused on private-public partnerships in their attempts to develop water management capacity around the world, overlooking the vast expertise of public sector water operators. But now they too are starting to recognise the benefits of public-public partnerships for the provision of public water and sanitation services, writes David Hall. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/73862 ****** STRENGTHENING PUBLIC WATER South–South–North public–public partnerships Samir Bensaid While both North–South partnerships and South–South partnerships have strengths and limitations, linking these in networked models is an effective way to mobilise expertise and funding and achieve success, writes Samir Bensaid, with reference to the example of ONEP (Morocco) and SNDE (Mauritania). http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/73858 ****** THE WRONG CLIMATE FOR BIG DAMS Why Africa should shun hydropower megaprojects Lori Pottinger Hydropower dams are ‘well-suited for facilitating industrialisation and exploitation of natural resources, but not for reducing Africa’s energy poverty’, writes Lori Pottinger. And given the water-security problems posed by climate change, ‘the proposed frenzy of African dam building could be literally disastrous.’ http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/73863 ****** THE COST OF ADDING CARBON CREDITS TO CLEAN WATER Shiney Varghese Linking carbon credits to clean water initiatives as a means of reducing carbon emissions is simply a corporate effort to cash in on measures to tackle climate change, writes Shiney Varghese. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/73834 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ Fahamu - Networks For Social Justice http://www.fahamu.org Pambazuka News is published by Fahamu Ltd. © Unless otherwise indicated, all materials published are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. 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