The global experience with remunicipalisation

"Our public water future: The global experience with remunicipalisation" was released in the run-up to the opening of the 2015 World Water Forum in South Korea.

Listen to the BBC's interview of the author, Emanuele Lobina:

PSI Deputy General Secretary David Boys says, “This new report confirms the acceleration of remunicipalisation in the past five years. We ask the World Bank and other development actors to integrate these findings into their policies and programmes and to immediately stop imposing failed privatisation around the world.”

The launch of the book comes in the wake of Jakarta’s decision in March 2015 to annul its privatised water contracts citing the violation of the 9.9 million residents’ human right to water. This is the largest remunicipalisation in the world, suggesting that water privatisation is running out of steam and the pendulum is swinging back in favour of a reinvigorated, accountable and sustainable public control of water.

• More information on TNI website
• Press release: Wave of remunicipalisation reaches 100 million people
• Media briefing on book: Why are cities choosing to bring water back under public control?
• Our public water future: The global experience with remunicipalisation
• Booting Corporate Power, Communities Are Taking Back Control of Their Water (www.commondreams.org)