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Asian CSOs Urge Leaders to Reject ADB’s Strategy 2020 Framework |
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Written by Ava Danlog
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Saturday, 03 May 2008 |
Press Statement 03 May 2008 By the IFI Water Watch MADRID, Spain- Civil society organizations from Asia urge their leaders attending the 41st Governors’ Meeting to reject the pro-privatization and anti-poor Strategy 2020- the new long-term strategic framework of the Asian Development Bank- which is part of the agenda of the meetings in Madrid, Spain, from May 3-6. Contrary to its corporate vision of “An Asia and Pacific Free of Poverty”, the Strategy 2020, which replaces the long-term strategic framework 2000-2015, will actually lead to increased poverty, debt, hunger and environmental plunder in the region. |
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Sri Lanka water activists protest against water privatization and pollution on World Water Day |
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Written by Administrator
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
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Water activists from the Green Movement of Sri Lanka staged a protest against water privatization and pollution during the World Water Day on March 2008, also the International Year of Sanitation.   
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West Seti: Who gives a dam? |
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Written by BY RABIN SUBEDI & RATAN BHANDARI
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
The proposed West Seti Hydroelectric Project is a reservoir type project located in Doti, Baitadi, Dadeldhura and Bajhang districts in far west Nepal. The plan calls for a 195-m high dam and will generate 750 MW of electricity. Its estimated cost is US$ 1.2 billion. Australian based Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation (SMEC) has received the license to operate the project. The electricity produced here is to be sold to India for which SMEC has already signed a power purchase agreement with the Power Trading Corporation of India. The ADB, CMEC-China, EI Bank of China, IC Bank of China, Bank of China and IL&FS of India are the main investors.
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Benguet governor seeks Greenpeace water test validation |
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Written by Northern Dispatch Information Service
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Tuesday, 19 February 2008 |
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LA TRINIDAD, Benguet (Feb. 8 ) — Benguet Governor Nestor Fongwan called for the validation of a recent research of an environmental group, which allegedly found that Benguet drinking water is contaminated with high levels of nitrate concentration. |
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WAFED Strongly Opposes ADB Tricks to Trap Nepal into its Water Privatisation Conspiracy |
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Written by Water and Energy Users' Federation, Nepal
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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
8 February 2008, Kathmandu, Nepal  Water and Energy Users' Federation – Nepal (WAFED) strongly opposes the most recent instance of the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) duplicity in the continuing saga of forcing Nepal into its trap of privatizing Kathmandu Valley water supply and its management, an objective it has been pursuing single-mindedly for the last many years. A press release issued by the ADB in Manila today maintained that a new private sector manager will be recruited parallel to the construction of the 26 kilometer long Melamchi River diversion tunnel to Kathmandu. It has also reaffirmed its misconceived claim that Melamchi Water Supply Project is the only available option for Kathmandu as the existing alternative water sources such as shallow wells, public taps, rainwater, tankers, or bottled water are expensive. |
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WPN Holds South Asia Right to Water Workshop |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
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In a move to further strengthen the water justice campaign in the region, a total of 21 participants gathered for the South Asia Right to Water Capacity Building Workshop on 16 October 2007 in Bangkok, Thailand, organized by the Water for the People Network. |
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Workshop on Community-Owned Water Systems: Sustainable Alternatives to Privatization |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
 Participants listen to a presentation of a community-owned water system in Nepal A workshop on communities successfully managing their own water resources and systems in Asia was held as part of a region-wide conference on natural resources.
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MWSS officials should resign for continued mishandling of Maynilad |
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 20 January 2006 |
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The entire Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) and its administrator Orlando Hondrade should resign en masse for consistently compromising the public interest with their mishandling of the case against Maynilad Water Services Inc. |
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