[Reader-list] [Announcements] Invite: Meeting on Water Campaign, Bangalore

[Anu pama]

Campaign Against the Privatisation of Water

Meeting: August 4, Thursday
Venue: SCM House, Bangalore
Time: 5:30 pm

With the coming of large organisations that have begun privatising
natural resources in the country, the human right to life is being
grossly violated. Rivers, lakes, tanks, wells, ground water and
numerous other water resources are being destroyed, dying a slow death
under the garb of a thriving market economy. Communities have been
forcibly denied the right to potable water, where women, children,
slum dwellers, farmers and Dalits are being pushed further to the
margins to existence due to a large deficit of water.

This year the UN launched the 'Water for Life' decade. The water for
life struggle has heightened with the coming of forces of
globalisation that are hand in glove with the government in selling
water resources for bottled water and soft drinks. They perform this
callous trade in the name of development. By 2050, India will face a
severe shortage of water, which will be catastrophic.

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Dear All,

We will be having a preliminary meeting to talk about strategies,
agendas and issues with regards to water and its privatisation. Please
do come for the meeting and help direct the Campaign towards decisive
action.

In solidarity,
Regards,
Anu, Sasi, Samuel, Mathews, David and Ravi
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