March 16th 2006, one day before the opening of the Fourth World Water Forum the “Symposium on Improving Public Water Delivery” brought together more than 200 participants. They discussed the potential of public water delivery as a response to the failures of the privatization decade of the 1990s. As part of the International Forum in the Defense of Water, academics, public sector managers, trade unionists and civil society groups from around the world shared experiences and discussed the potential for improvements in and the empowerment of public service delivery, as the one adequate answer to the world’s water and sanitation crisis.
The symposium was co-hosted by the Transnational Institute (TNI), Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), Coalition of Mexican Organizations for the Right to Water (COMDA), Friends of the Earth International, Sobrevivencia, Friends of the Earth France, Council of Canadians, World Development Movement (WDM), Bread for the World, and numerous other groups from the Reclaiming Public Water network.
