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Cancel Laiban Dam deal, MWSS urged |
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Written by IBON Foundation, Inc.
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Thursday, 20 August 2009 |
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The Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) should stop the alleged joint-venture proposal of San Miguel Corp. (SMC) as well as the bidding process that will revive the Laiban dam project because it is marked by allegations of corruption and cronyism, said research group IBON Foundation. |
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Written by Gopal Siwakoti "Chintan"
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Thursday, 20 August 2009 |
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Unfortunately, Nepal is being seen as a funny country in recent days. We cannot live like this forever in the community of civilized nations. We must change the way we do things with no system of governance from politics to water governance. We cannot keep Pancheshwar alive when the Mahakali Treaty is already dead. It will be like our leaders still being alive despite the fact that their very basic foundation of peace and the constitution-making process is dying. |
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Asian CSOs Urge Leaders to Reject ADB?s Strategy 2020 Framework |
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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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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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