Water Privatization

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Water Privatization

• Water team

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Agenda

• Goals
• Understand the impacts of national water policy
  on the progress
• Pass a resolution against water privatization
• Spearhead awareness and campaign with in AID and
  NRI community
• Understand the impact of river linking with in
  the context of water privatization

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Water Policy

• DO YOU AGREE WITH THIS STATEMENT?
• UN has declared access to water as a human right
  and establishes water a social and cultural good
  and not as a economic commodity
• What does this signify to you?

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National Water Policy 2002

• Water is a prime natural resource, a basic human
  need and a precious national asset

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Global Water Consumption
http//www.italocorotondo.it/tequila/module1/water
_cycle/water_sources.htm
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In India

• What areas are water primarily used?
• How much water does a human being for basic
  necessities?
• What are the water sources in India?
• Rain fall
• Ground water
• Surface water

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Water Management

• Urban Municipality board
• Water distribution from local canal or
  inter-basin transfer
• Rural
• Ground water exploitation
• Surface water

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Issues with water management

• Can you identify the different issues with water
  management today?

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Issues with water management

• Increasing consumption patterns
• Growing water scarcity
• Lack of access to water
• Inefficient distribution in urban areas
• Quality

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Is Water Privatization the ultimate solution?

• Excerpt from 2001 water policy
• Private sector participation should be
  encouraged in planning, development and
  management of water resources projects for
  diverse uses, wherever feasible. Private sector
  participation may help in introducing innovative
  ideas, generating financial resources and
  introducing corporate management and improving
  service efficiency and accountability to users.
  Depending upon the specific situations, various
  combinations of private sector participation, in
  building, owning, operating, leasing and
  transferring of water resources facilities, may
  be considered.

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• End of part 1