Round table organized by the European Water Movement
during Climate Forum in Montreuil,
December 5th, 2015 from 16:30 to 18:30

Moderation
Daniela Del Bene, Xarxa per la Sobirania Energetica

Barrages et centrales nucléaires du Rhône
Thierry Uso, Eau Secours 34

Barrages et centrales nucléaires de la Durance
Bernard Mounier, Coordination EBC PACA

Damming the Ebro river
Annelies Broekman, Xarxa Nova Cultura de l'Aigua

The global challenge of dam removal
Ercan Ayboga, Keep Hasankeyf Alive

Análisis y propuestas desde la perspectiva de la soberanía energética
Alfons Pérez, Observatori del Deute en la Globalitzaciò + Xarxa per la Sobirania Energetica

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Round table organized by the European Water Movement
during Climate Forum in Montreuil,
December 5th, 2015 from 14:00 to 16:00

Introduction
Thierry Uso, Aquattac

Evaporation, a new paradigm in urban rainwater management - The case of Berlin
Marco Schmidt, Technische Universität Berlin

Inondations, urbanisation et changement climatique dans l’Hérault
Thierry Uso, Eau Secours 34

Inondations, urbanisation et changement climatique dans le Gard
Ghislaine Soulet, Collectif lanceur d'alertes de l'agglomération d'Alès

Inondations, urbanisation et changement climatique dans les Alpes Maritimes
Monique Touzeau, Collectif Associatif Pour des Réalisations Ecologiques 06

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Keynote speech from the International Conference on Water, Megacities and Global Change, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, December 1, 2015

The challenge is stark. Peri-urban slums ring most of the developing world’s megacities where climate and food refugees are arriving in relentless numbers. Unable to access their traditional sources of water because they have been poisoned, overexploited or priced beyond reach, many must pay exorbitant prices to local water dealers or rely on drinking water contaminated with their own waste.

UN-Habitat reports that by 2030, more than half the populations of large urban centres will be slum dwellers and the US National Academy of Scientists says that by 2050, more than one billion of these urban slum dwellers will only have daily access to enough water to fill a small bathtub.

Hardest hit cities will include Beijing, New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Manila, Mexico City, Caracas, Lagos, Abidjan, Tehran, and Johannesburg. Today, greater Sao Paulo, with a population of almost 20 million people, is literally running out of water.

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A new book shows that the growing wave of cities putting water back under public control has now spread to 37 countries impacting 100 million people.

The book is launched in the run-up to the World Water Forum in South Korea (12-17 April) and comes in the wake of Jakarta’s decision in March 2015 to annul its privatised water contracts citing the violation of the 9.9 million residents’ human right to water.

This is the largest remunicipalisation in the world, suggesting that water privatisation is running out of steam and the pendulum is swinging back in favour of a reinvigorated, accountable and sustainable public control of water.

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