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Bharat, This is a policy document I did this year under a consultancy for Practical Action (a UK NGO) on GATS and service provision. Practical Action is a small-scale, community-focused NGO specialising in appropriate water provision and technology, that arose from the Schumacher Centre (used to be IETG?) - they needed to work out what was the most appropriate way to engage (or not) with GATS and service provision of various kinds, given the variety of different views that their country partners had on the issue. See what you think. Jon Cloke GaWC Loughborough Uni From: bharat punjabi <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: bharat punjabi <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Water as the Commons Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 15:45:44 +0000 Dear Crit geog members I was wondering whether subscribers interested in water issues had any commentary to offer on the UBC scholar, Karen Bakker's excellent recent paper on water in the recent Antipode (citation below). For a researcher like myself (who is working on intersectoral conflict over water in India), the article came at a very good time, given the intensity of the water rights versus commons debate in the Indian context. Bakker puts the focus on this debate and makes a persuasive case for actvists to not overly focus on water rights. I am writing this message so as to provoke a discussion on this list on the arguments in this paper from scholars working in other geographical contexts. regards Bharat Karen Bakker (2007) The "Commons" Versus the "Commodity": Alter-globalization, Anti-privatization and the Human Right to Water in the Global South Antipode 39 (3), 430–455. Bharat Punjabi Phd Candidate Department of Geography Social Science Centre The University of Western Ontario 1151 Richmond Street London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5C2 Tel: 519 661-3423, Fax: 519 661-3750 _________________________________________________________________ Marriage? Get Detailed Profiles only at shaadi.com http://ss1.richmedia.in/recurl.asp?pid=199