Appeal Second National Assembly Water
We, women and men from all over the country participating in the Second National Water Assembly held in Bogota on February 29 and March 1 2008, 1255 driven by social organizations and 236 000 people who signed the registration with the National Registry of a proposal for constitutional reform have called Water Referendum, call the Colombian people to join this public confluence seeking recognition of access to drinking water as a fundamental human right, ensuring a minimum living free for all, conservation of the environment so that there is abundant and clean water for generations of today and tomorrow, respect for cultural diversity and territorial water, and state and community governance of the same nonprofit that reverse current privatization.
Today thirteen million Colombians suffer from thirst, millions of children are affected by the poor quality of their water when it reaches them, hundreds of thousands of families have been disconnected from water service because they have nothing to pay high tariffs, and essential ecosystem to ensure the natural flow water are at risk.
water essential for life, has been threatened by public policies seeking only financial gain, natural predation, the privatization of the springs and rivers, and the drive to war and militarization of large areas of our territory, associated with mega projects mining, hydroelectric, forestry, agro-fuels and infrastructure which underpin the FTA, the IIRSA, current Departmental Water Plans, the privatization of water and wastewater, grants for private use of natural resources, and imposition of so-called markets of environmental services, in which not only seeks to privatize water, but is regarded as a commodity, forgetting that she is beginning indefeasible human dignity and life.
Therefore, with deep passion, commitment, life, joy and decision support are calling this referendum in defense of water as a common public good and strengthen it with their direct involvement, with his signature and the formation of regional committees or accession to the already formed by the confluence of men and women of all ages, social movements, environmental organizations, users of public services, development committees and social control and its members, peasant communities, religious congregations, unions, independent workers, community action groups, human rights defenders, indigenous peoples and Afro-descendants and other ethnic groups.
invite you to become stewards of water for present and future generations of Colombians, bringing together a million and a half signatures needed to convene the Colombian people to vote by referendum on constitutional reform, and rebuild our lives public natural water transparency, attending civic participation and social control with the freshness and flow of streams and rivers that abound in this land, defend our public assets and protect the water of life.
The Water is essential for life!
A water sign the referendum from next March 8th! Bogotá,
We, women and men from all over the country participating in the Second National Water Assembly held in Bogota on February 29 and March 1 2008, 1255 driven by social organizations and 236 000 people who signed the registration with the National Registry of a proposal for constitutional reform have called Water Referendum, call the Colombian people to join this public confluence seeking recognition of access to drinking water as a fundamental human right, ensuring a minimum living free for all, conservation of the environment so that there is abundant and clean water for generations of today and tomorrow, respect for cultural diversity and territorial water, and state and community governance of the same nonprofit that reverse current privatization.
Today thirteen million Colombians suffer from thirst, millions of children are affected by the poor quality of their water when it reaches them, hundreds of thousands of families have been disconnected from water service because they have nothing to pay high tariffs, and essential ecosystem to ensure the natural flow water are at risk.
water essential for life, has been threatened by public policies seeking only financial gain, natural predation, the privatization of the springs and rivers, and the drive to war and militarization of large areas of our territory, associated with mega projects mining, hydroelectric, forestry, agro-fuels and infrastructure which underpin the FTA, the IIRSA, current Departmental Water Plans, the privatization of water and wastewater, grants for private use of natural resources, and imposition of so-called markets of environmental services, in which not only seeks to privatize water, but is regarded as a commodity, forgetting that she is beginning indefeasible human dignity and life.
Therefore, with deep passion, commitment, life, joy and decision support are calling this referendum in defense of water as a common public good and strengthen it with their direct involvement, with his signature and the formation of regional committees or accession to the already formed by the confluence of men and women of all ages, social movements, environmental organizations, users of public services, development committees and social control and its members, peasant communities, religious congregations, unions, independent workers, community action groups, human rights defenders, indigenous peoples and Afro-descendants and other ethnic groups.
invite you to become stewards of water for present and future generations of Colombians, bringing together a million and a half signatures needed to convene the Colombian people to vote by referendum on constitutional reform, and rebuild our lives public natural water transparency, attending civic participation and social control with the freshness and flow of streams and rivers that abound in this land, defend our public assets and protect the water of life.
The Water is essential for life!
A water sign the referendum from next March 8th! Bogotá,
March 1, 2008
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