As part of the celebration of the World Water Day, which the United Nations celebrates every March 22, the Network for Public Access to Water (Red Agua Pública – RAP) organizes an event called “Public policies and water justice in the light of financialization of water”. This event will be held on Monday, March 24, 2025, from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m., in Madrid, in the Ernest Lüh hall of the Congress of Spain, and Pedro Arojo, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to drinking water and sanitation, and Iva Marković, founder of the Right to Water initiative, a member of the People’s Movement for Water, will speak at it, among others.
The goal of this event is to shed light on the connections between water and the economy, especially the processes of commercialization and financialization, the importance of which was highlighted in the reports of the last UN special rapporteurs for human rights to drinking water and sanitation.
Event program:
- 12:00 – 12:10 : Introduction and moderation – Nuria Hernandez Mora (RAP, New Water Culture Foundation)
- 12:10 – 12:25 : “The public water network in the current situation” – Erika González Breeze (RAP, Environmentalists in Action)
- 12:25 – 12:40 : “The connection between water and the economy from a human rights perspective: the international situation and the UN water summit” – Pedro Arojo (UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to drinking water and sanitation)
- 12:40 – 12:55 : “The illusory economy of water: report of the Global Commission on the Economy of Water” – Emanuele Lobina (International Research Unit for Public Services, University of Greenwich)
- 12:55 – 13:10 : “International movement for water justice and UN water summits” – Iva Marković (People’s Water Movement)
- 13:10 – 13:40 : Discussion
- 13:40 – 13:50 : Conclusions and closure – Susana Hill Pascual (RAP, Platform against the privatization of Canal)
