{"id":341927,"date":"2010-02-19T15:31:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T20:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3137"},"modified":"2010-02-19T15:31:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T20:31:56","slug":"new-signs-the-tide-may-be-shifting-against-water-privatization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/341927","title":{"rendered":"New signs the tide may be shifting against water privatization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/water\/145727\/new_signs_the_tide_may_be_shifting_against_water_privatization_\" >AlterNet:<\/a> In the first hours of 2010, the city of Paris, whose water system has been under various forms of mixed public and private management for much of the last century, took back public control of its water utility. The decision is emblematic of changes occurring throughout the world, with the wave of utility privatizations ebbing in the face of mismanagement, dismal community relations and a rising tide of concern, in the developing world especially, about whether denial of affordable, safe water constitutes an abuse of human rights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/water\/145727\/new_signs_the_tide_may_be_shifting_against_water_privatization_\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/images\/managed\/storyimages_img1566.jpg_640x480_310x220\" align=\"left\" width=\"285\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a>Despite a widespread crisis of confidence in private investment inspired both by the acknowledged failures of water privatization and by the global economic crisis, the private water industry is far from giving up the ghost. France, the nation that has promoted deregulation and privatization so strongly that this particular ideological export is known as the &#8220;French model&#8221; of water management, is still home to some of the world&#8217;s most powerful private water entities.<\/p>\n<p>The next World Water Forum, the largest global event dedicated to water management, will be held in the southern French port city of Marseilles in 2012. If events that took place in Paris last week are any indication, the gathering, like past Water Forums in Istanbul, Mexico City, and Kyoto, Japan, will attract significant and vocal opposition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/water\/145727\/new_signs_the_tide_may_be_shifting_against_water_privatization_\" >Read more&gt;&gt; <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3137&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3137\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AlterNet: In the first hours of 2010, the city of Paris, whose water system has been under various forms of mixed public and private management for much of the last century, took back public control of its water utility. The decision is emblematic of changes occurring throughout the world, with the wave of utility privatizations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}