World council of water
The World council of water (in English The World Toilets Council ) is an international collaboration of ONG, governments and international organizations to solve the problems involved in water in the world.
Founded in 1996, its seat is with Marseilles. It gathers currently more than 300 organizations through 50 countries.
World forum of water
It organizes every 3 years, the " World forum of the eau". The choice of the dates of the world forum of water holds in account the inclusion of the world Journée of water, on March 22nd.
Chronology of the forum
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the First world forum of water took place with Marrakech (Morocco) in March 1997
- the Second world forum of water took place with $the Hague (Netherlands) in March 2000. It brings together 5.700 participants including 114 ministers and representatives of 130 countries and 500 journalists.
- the Third world forum of water took place in three Japanese cities: Kyōto, Ōsaka and Shiga, from March 16th to 23rd 2003.
- the Fourth world forum of water took place with Mexico City of the 14 to the 22 March 2006. It brought together 12.000 participants, including more than 120 ministers in charge for hydraulics, around the topic " Of the local actions to take up a total challenge ". One discussed work there carrying on many questions such as the right to declared water " public property universel" , financing of water and diseases hydrous.
Governorship
Since 2005, the president of the World council of water (CME) is Loïc Fauchon, president of the Société of water of Marseilles.
This organization is from now on ready from now on to put its weight in the balance so that UNO recognizes the access to water like a basic right and that one marks out it by a Charte, which would include/understand the following principles:
- * the access to water is a basic right and the governments have the responsibility to ensure the access to all of them.
- * the management of water must be a dominating public responsibility, and its methods of management and financing must recognize that the right of access with done everything an obligation to preserve the resource at the managers and users.
- * the management of water by the public authorities, must recognize with the communities the capacity to initially manage their watery inheritance, which also orders, of the responsibilities for fiduciary for the common resource and above all.
- * the public bodies should not hesitate to structure the transfers of richnesses within the companies while making pay water more expensive with the rich person than with the poor to concretize the right of access.
- * the management of water should not be limited to the problems of availability of the aqueous resource; it must also take account of the need for maintaining in life the ecosystems which depend on it and any puncture, including those of the assoiffés neighbors, cannot be justified if it proceeds of a logic of wasting and the additional punctures with the basic needs should be authorized only as ultimate solution, by an strict application of the Precaution principle.
- * the management of water must be a dominating public responsibility, and its methods of management and financing must recognize that the right of access with done everything an obligation to preserve the resource at the managers and users.
External bonds
- Official site of the World council of water
- Official site of the 5th World forum of water
- Site of Alliance for world observation on water
- Site on the financing of water
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