Right 2 Water (ECI)

Water is a public good, not a commodity.

This ECI invites the European Commission to propose legislation implementing the human right to water and sanitation as recognised by the United Nations, and promoting the provision of water and sanitation as essential public services for all.

• EU legislation should require governments to ensure and to provide all citizens with sufficient and clean drinking water and sanitation.
• Water supply and management of water resources should not be subject to ‘internal market rules’ and water services should be excluded from liberalisation.

The one million signature threshold has already been reached. As the campaign is still going strong, the organisers have raised the target for September 2013 to two million signatures.

Anne-Marie Perret

Anne-Marie Perret (FR) is President of the citizens' committee. She was elected as president of the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) in 2005 and again in 2009 for a second term.

She holds a Maîtrise d’espagnol à l’université de Nanterre (1973), a First cerficate in English, Cambridge (1991) and an  International Certificate in English des chambres de commerce et d’industrie (1991)

She was Secrétaire fédérale at the Fédération Générale des Fonctionnaires Force Ouvrière (FGF-FO) since September 1999; in charge of Europe/international affairs.

More Information

• http://www.right2water.eu/