DAM-L [right-to-water] WWF position on privatisation (fwd)

["D. Murray" <dianne@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>]

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Subject: [right-to-water] WWF position on privatisation
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Right to Water (right-to-water@iatp.org)    Posted: 04/19/2002  By  svarghese@iatp.org	
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Below is a message from Water advocacy list serve on WWF position on
privatisation

Dear colleagues,

In the wake of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the World
Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) highlights the growing importance of
partnerships with the private sector to tackle the freshwater
crisis. "Private investment in infrastructure and management of
services is no panacea however", WWF warns, "as there are still
worrying issues concerning the ability of consumers to pay, access of
rural populations, and sustainable resource management".

Among positive developments, WWF mentions the HSBC bank's funding for
the "Investing in Nature" programme and Unilever's attention to water
conservation and pollution control. Unilever recently calculated
its "water imprint" on the world: raw materials, production, and
consumer use of its products account for about 0.1% of total global
water consumption.

WWF scorns those companies that "prefer simply to sponsor a few "feel-
good" projects for water supply or tree planting for the benefit of a
few "green" paragraphs in their annual report".

Related news - Rivers: WWF to Resuscitate Three of the World's Major
Rivers, Source, 11 Mar 2002,
http://www.wsscc.org/source/weekly/020910.html#rivers
Related web sites: Business Partners for Development (BPD) Water and
Sanitation Cluster, http://www.bpd-waterandsanitation.org/
Contact: Lisa Hadeed, Communications Manager, WWF Living Waters
Programme, mailto:lhadeed@wwfint.org (WWF, 22 Mar 2002,
http://www.panda.org/news/press/news.cfm?id=2811)

Reported in Source Weekly, 13 - 14, 8 April 2002

Dick de Jong, List Moderator
jong@irc.nl





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