Watergrabbing - A Story of Water

We have started a long term project about Watergrabbing, the situation in which powerful actors, public or private, are able to take control of or reallocate precious water resources for their own benefit, at the expense of local communities and ecosystems on which the communities’ livelihoods are based.

We have published an atlas that can be found on the website, along with some reportages. We will publish a selection of maps here below.

For whom are interested we are looking for funds to extend and expand the project, with new maps and new stories.

You can contact me through the Water Network

Hope you will enjoy it! 

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Taxonomy

• Governance
• Resource Management
• Water Resource Management
• Water Resource Mapping
• Governance & Policy
• Sustainable Water Resource Management
• Water Management
• Water Resource Management
• Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)

4 Comments

1. Really appreciate this effort to tell an important story happening around the world right now

2. Those are really interesting resources. Thank you.

3. @ Watergrabbing - A Story of Water

   Dear EmanueIe,

   Your initiative and efforts to highlight issues on 'Watergrabbing' are interesting. Putting personal interests/benefits and greed before citizens welfare are common problems.

   In the context of groundwater security, I have pleasure to attach herewith the link on my Book on 'Better Governance of Groundwater......’, Lambert, Germany, which may be of interest to you.

   I shall appreciate receiving further information on your activities.

   Regards.

   Prof. Partha Sarathi Datta, E-mail: psdatta1950@gmail.com

   Author of 'BETTER GROUNDWATER GOVERNANCE ONLY CAN ENSURE SUSTAINED WATER SUPPLY', LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, ISBN-13: 978-3-330-32219-6.
   The book is available on Website: https://www.lap-publishing.com/catalog/details//store/gb/book/978-3-330-32219-6/better-groundwater-governance-only-can-ensure-sustained-water-supply

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   1. Thanks! I will have a look at it! sorry for the late reply. I will keep you posted on the next activities. 

4. Emanuele, I'm writing a book on how people share water around the world. I do understand the problem with watergrabbing very well, however, I am specifically looking for cases where people have successfully negotiated mutually agreed upon solutions which are sustainable. I know many cases are still ongoing but still have gained some consensus. If you are aware of any examples of resolutions to this problem that you would like to share (or a contact to whom I might speak or interview) I would love to include this topic in my book. The book covers anything from local to International agreements that are made over shared waters. The business of water is becoming increasingly contentious as you know but there are solutions I'm finding in various places and I think it would be wonderful for people to have some examples to turn to. Please contact me by my email kathleen.rugel@gmail.com if you have anything to add to that conversation. Thank you for your article and continuing concern for this topic.

   Sincerely, Kathleen Rugel