right to water
WPN hits private firms’ impunity, backs growing calls to terminate PrimeWater deals
June 26, 2026
Right to water violations under JVAs, mounting consumer complaints, and government failure to protect the people from problematic public-private partnership have persisted for years.
Water wars: A global battle for public control
May 30, 2025
In the Philippines and worldwide, private sector involvement in water services has only led to broken promises of better management, rising costs, and deteriorating services. The growing number of contract terminations and public takeovers shows growing resistance against profit-driven water management and highlights the need to prioritize people over profits.
Right to Water Conference Proceedings
May 12, 2025
Disconnection Notice! Villars, oligarchs, should have no place in public services or utilities
May 6, 2025
Disconnection Notice! Villars, oligarchs, should have no place in public services or utilities
Groups serve ‘disconnection notice’ to Villar’s Prime Water, urge zero votes for Camille Villar
May 6, 2025
NEWS
The groups vowed to continue opposing government’s pro-oligarchs stance and advocate for alternative measures that promote people’s control over people’s resources.
Water for the people: Groups buck worsening water privatization
November 18, 2023
Various water stakeholders gathering in a conference to study water privatization instead called for strengthening people’s control over resources as basic as water.
Will the creation of a department solve our water woes?
April 17, 2023
FEATURES
SB102 distorts the concept of water resources belonging to the commons or cultural and natural resources that are accessible to all members of a society by allowing water to be handled by the profit- and business- oriented private sector.
The State of our Access to Clean Water and Sanitation
December 12, 2019
Unmet targets: Poor water and sanitation service is failure of privatization
October 25, 2019
WATER FOR THE PEOPLE NETWORK
The public sector has to have the key and central role in providing water and sanitation services. These cannot be made dependent on the narrow profit-seeking motives of private corporations.
