CAMPAIGNING WEBSITE MONITORS RE-MUNICIPALISATION OF WATER SERVICES

BY KEITH NUTHALL AN INTERNATIONAL website has been launched by two European campaign groups pushing for the return of water services to local governments worldwide. The Corporate Europe Observatory and Transnational Institute organisations have set up www.remunicipalisation.org to monitor campaigns for transferring water services from private utilities. It notes decisions have recently been made to restore local government control over water supplies to Varages; Durance-Luberon; Castres; and Cherbourg, in France, and recently in Paris. The aim of the site is to ...


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