From 18-24 May 2024, Indonesia will host the 10th World Water Forum (WWF). This triennial event is convened by the World Water Council (WWC), a corporate-driven multi-stakeholder body that brings banks, transnational water companies, academics and public agencies together to promote private sector solutions to water governance, management and delivery.
This is why for more than two decades, the WWF has been opposed by the global water justice movement—a growing network of water and environmental justice organizations, social movements, small scale farmers, trade unions and human rights advocates around the world. The organizers of the People’s Water Forum (PWF) firmly believe that water is life and sacred, rather than a market commodity, part of our global commons to be shared equitably and protected for future generations.
Beyond protesting the water merchants, profiteers and enablers gathering at the WWF, the PWF seeks to showcase alternatives, learning together, planning together, and finding new ways to live together.
What we will be doing in Bali
The PWF 2024 in Bali offers global water justice movements and their allies and partners an opportunity to learn, organize, mobilize and unite struggles for the human right to water in Southeast Asia with other struggles against privatization and for public and community water alternatives across the globe. In Bali, and for participants who will join virtually from around the world, water activists will continue challenging and resisting water privatization, recognizing that the struggle for water is an intersectional, internationalist struggle that requires an anti-capitalist, anti-racist, feminist and people-centered orientation. Water defenders and others will join hands and voices with communities in Bali, Southeast Asia and across the world to strengthen the global water justice network and movement (see the PWF programme for more).
