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Alternative Water Forum - 2009

Alternative Water Forum Photos, Media Coverage and Declaration
Sunday, 29 March 2009

Alternative Water Forum which is hosted by Another Water Management Is Possible Campaign was held in Istanbul Bilgi University santralistanbul Campus with a participation of 1000 people from various countries. There were 14 seminars, 17 workshops, 3 documentary film screenings, 1 exhibition and nearly 20 NGO stalls in the forum organized on 20-21-22th March.

You can find the news about Alternative Water Forum published in newspapers of Turkey from this link. Please see below for the photos of the event. You can click here to see the photo album of Sengul Cifci on the event in Istanbul Bilgi University. You can also see her photos on Picasa from this link.

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Alternative Water Forum - Istanbul Declaration
Tuesday, 24 March 2009

Istanbul, March 22, 2009

After Mexico City 2006, which was an important milestone of the continuous work of the global movement for water justice, we have now gathered in Istanbul to mobilize against the 5th World Water Forum. We are here to delegitimize this false, corporate driven World Water Forum and to give voice to the positive agenda of the global water justice movements!

Given that we are in Turkey, we cannot ignore that this country provides a powerful example of the devastating impacts of destructive water management policies. The Turkish government has pushed for the privatization of both water services, watersheds and has plans to dam every river in the country. Four specific cases of destructive and risky dams in Turkey, include the Ilisu, Yusufeli, Munzur and Yortanli dams. For ten years, affected people have intensively opposed these projects, in particular, the Ilisu dam which is part of a larger irrigation and energy production project known as the South East Anatolia Projects, or GAP. The Ilisu dam – one of the most criticized dam projects worldwide – is particularly compex and troubling because of its implications on international policy in the Middle East. The dam is situated in the Kurdish-settled region where there are ongoing human rights violations related to the unsolved Kurdish question. The Turkish government is using GAP to negatively impact the livelihood of the Kurdish people and to suppress their cultural and political rights.

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The Program of Alternative Water Forum
Sunday, 08 March 2009

poster of alternative water forum The program of the Alternative Water Forum was announced last week with a press conference. You can see the program below. The Alternative Water Forum will take place in Bilgi University SantralIstanbul Campus at 20-21-22 March.

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Press Conference
Sunday, 08 March 2009

press conference of Alternative Water Forum Another Water Management Is Possible Campaign organized a press conference in Taxim Hill Hotel on 5th of March. Campaign announced the program of Alternative Water Forum in the meeting. Omer Madra (Writer, Open Radio), Birol Topaloglu (Musician), Ufuk Uras (Istanbul MP), Akin Birdal (Diyarbakir MP and candidate for Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality), Ulrike Dufner (Heinrich Boell Foundation) and Sultan Toptas (Keep Hasankeyf Alive Initiative) presented the activities of the Campaign. Please see the news of Hurriyet below to see the details of the conference.

Differing views at the Alternative Water Forum
ISTANBUL - Organized to coincide with the 5th World Water Forum, the Alternative Water Forum presents different opinions on water policy. The alternative forum will take place March 20 to 22 at Bilgi Univeristy’s Santralistanbul Campus

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/11153424.asp

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A leak in UNESCO support for water forum
Friday, 13 March 2009

hurriyet - daily news - 12 March 2009

ISTANBUL - The World Water Forum in Istanbul is not all clean fun like a day at the water park as UNESCO, whose involvement is seen as pivotal to the forum’s legitimacy, temporarily pulls out in protest of a ban on discussing cultural diversity

A leak in UNESCO support for water forum
Under ordinary circumstances, water never runs backwards. But support for water forums can run in two directions, as the United Nations international scientific cooperative program demonstrated yesterday.

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Differing views at the Alternative Water Forum
Friday, 13 March 2009

hürriyet - daily news

Differing views at the Alternative Water Forum
ISTANBUL - Organized to coincide with the 5th World Water Forum, the Alternative Water Forum presents different opinions on water policy. The alternative forum will take place March 20 to 22 at Bilgi Univeristy’s Santralistanbul Campus

"Another water management is possible," read the poster at the Alternative Water Forum on Thursday. Organized to coincide with the 5th World Water Forum, the Alternative Water Forum creates a counterview for all the policies on water.

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Preparatory Meeting was held
Saturday, 07 February 2009

Another Water Management Is Possible Campaign held the 2nd preparatory meeting in Taxim Hill Hotel, towards the Alternative Water Forum which will be on 20-22 March in Istanbul. There were activists and representatives of social movements from Turkey, Mexico, Germany, Austria and Catalonia in the preparatory meeting on 17th of January.

In the first part, there were presentations about the World Water Forum and the water issues in Turkey. The presentations  focused especially on dam politcs and the attempts of Turkish Government by using the official forum as an opportunity.

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Program Process Started...
Wednesday, 10 December 2008

The program process started for the Alternative Water Forum which will take place on 20-21-22nd of March 2009 at Bilgi University Santralİstanbul Campus.

We will organize the program of the alternative forum with the principle of ‘unity in diversity’ which becomes concrete in the social forum processes. In this respect, if you accept the call of the campaign , you can propose an activity to the alternative water forum in the name of your organization . It is enough to fill and send this form to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Please click on read more to see the details of the preparations. 

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Manifesto of European Public Water Network
Monday, 27 October 2008
ASF Malmo(European Social Forum in Malmö from 17 to 21 September)

TOWARDS A EUROPEAN PUBLIC WATER NETWORK

We recognize the Charters of Mexico City (Joint Declaration of the Movements in Defense of Water) and Nairobi and the method of working inclusively and in unity that has characterized the social forums since their birth. In particular we want:
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Contested Hydrohegemony: Hydraulic Control and Security in Turkey
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Jeroen Warner

The article seeks to expand the understanding of the emerging concept of hydrohegemony
(Zeitoun and Warner, 2006). Illustrated by Turkey’s strategy with respect to the Euphrates -Tigris
it looks at the layered nature of waterrelated political strategies at different levels.
The article therefore introduces hegemony as a layered henomenon whose multi-level
interactions impinge on each other.

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