Dam Politics: India's Leading Activist Medha Patkar Takes on Corporate Control of Water

when these centers, whether within India or outside India, such as the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the bilaterals, such as the USAID, the KfW, and whatnot, or ECD of Japan, which is now ODA, all of them come in with their money and their market interests and, you know, somewhere, apparently, state that this is joining the borrower country in achieving the public purpose, but in reality achieve the private purpose of their firms, their lending, ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Mar. 27, 2009

World water issues are becoming critical, and Patkar has been on the front lines battling for the rights of ordinary people. The communication here is a little fuzzed by the cultural and legal setting where she has been working.

We don’t want this kind of corporate zones at the cost of agriculture, the green land and the farms. We don’t want them to get the priority over farmers and fish workers

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