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NOTA DE PRENSA - 25 de marzo de 2008

THE REFERENDUM BY THE WATER STOPS

political figures, social and national arts meet to discuss the future of water in Colombia.El next Wednesday 26 March will take place at Hotel Bacatá breakfast with some of the honorable senators of the country, council of Bogotá and artists to present the proposal for a referendum on water in Colombia and get their insights and contributions address this iniciativa.Algunos National Committee members in Defence of Water and Life - CNDAV-submitted to the senators, councilmen and artists, the proposed referendum.

The central idea is to generate an exchange of views on the aims pursued and that the referendum result in a dialogue to begin to involve sectors of crucial importance in the development of the constitutional reform process.

The referendum comes at a time in Colombia in which 7 million impoverished people are denied the right to life by denying them access to water, 84% of municipalities do not have potable water, the privatization process have almost 15 years of insiders and the coverage has fallen by 4 percentage points according to the National Survey of Demography and Health 2005. In addition to the above, the devastation of ecosystems essential to the water cycle, which is made manifest, for example, the pollution of major rivers of the country and the destruction of the forests and moors, strongly affects the communities and your access to water.

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LA DEFENSA DEL AGUA CONTINÚA EN CHARALÁ

Collection of signatures in support of a referendum on water

On Sunday 16 March, the Committee of Oversight Environment (CAM) of Charalá, in coordination with the Ecological Committee of the Ecole Normale Superieure and group of students, all committed to the protection of water and life, began the process for the preparation of the collection of signatures for a referendum on water. At the conference attended by a large number of normality that are committed to the initiative and that from the beginning of the second stage of collecting signatures have been working hard for the success of the days of collection.

Besides the organizations mentioned above, was very important to involve the parish priests who from previous communications that have taken place, invited from the pulpit to make the call.

The collection of signatures in the municipality of Charalá started then with 974 signatures on Sunday 16 March and 520 on Tuesday, 18.

to the success of this event was of great importance to the dissemination by the media, community radio station Charal STEREO, CHAR Community Channel TV, independent journalists, students, members of the Committee of Oversight Environment (CAM), and in general people they see in this action an initiative of life.

are envisaged two days for the month of April, 20 and 22, which is expected to reach significant numbers, as a continuation of Charalá participation in this democratic process.