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		<title>Water rate hike hit, group says increase unjustified and insensitive</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[News release 1 February 2011 The Water for the People Network (WPN) condemned the rate hikes implemented by private water concessionaires in Metro Manila, calling the increases unjustified and insensitive to the plight of ordinary consumers. Starting this month, Manila Water Co. will charge P1.92 per cubic meter (cu. m) more on residential customers using [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterforthepeople.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12696515&amp;post=45&amp;subd=waterforthepeople&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PPP will not address water crisis, contrary to ADB claim</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 15, 2010 Press statement Experience of countries around the world that have implemented water privatization shows that public-private partnership (PPP) will not address the water crisis. Contrary to the claim of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), allowing profit-oriented private corporations to take over the management and distribution of water resources will even worsen the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterforthepeople.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12696515&amp;post=42&amp;subd=waterforthepeople&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Presidentiables dared to prove independence from big business interests</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[STOP ANGAT DAM PRIVATIZATION Press release / 28 April 2010 Advocacy group Water for the People Network (WPN) today challenged presidential candidates to prove that they are not beholden to big business interests and issue a categorical statement that they will not allow the privatization of the Angat Dam and undermine people’s access to water. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterforthepeople.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12696515&amp;post=39&amp;subd=waterforthepeople&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Regulate water use by golf courses, malls, hotels, amid tight water supply in Metro – WPN</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ensure water for the people Press release April 8, 2010 Advocacy group Water for the People Network (WPN) today said that private water utilities operating in Metro Manila as well as government regulators must come out with a detailed plan on how they will ensure that ordinary households will not be further marginalized by well-off [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterforthepeople.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12696515&amp;post=33&amp;subd=waterforthepeople&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Public water sector, not private power, should manage Angat dam, group says</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PSALM told to stop bidding Press release March 23, 2010 Advocacy group Water for the People Network (WPN) today said that the water sector, instead of private power companies, should take the lead in managing the facilities of the Angat Dam. The group issued the statement during a roundtable discussion it organized on the the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterforthepeople.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12696515&amp;post=26&amp;subd=waterforthepeople&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>World Water Day: Abandon Angat Dam privatization</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Privatization Threatens Access to Water of 28,000 Farmers, 14 Million Consumers Press release March 22, 2010 As the country marks World Water Day today, we call on government to abandon its plan to privatize water facilities like the Angat Dam amid longstanding issues of lack of people’s access to water. It is alarming that despite [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterforthepeople.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12696515&amp;post=20&amp;subd=waterforthepeople&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Water activists protest corporations&#8217; wasteful use of water amid El Niño</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo release March 19, 2010 MANILA, Philippines &#8211; Activists trooped to SM North Edsa mall&#8217;s artificial waterfalls to highlight how corporations and business establishments wastefully use water amid a water shortage facing consumers and farmers because of the El Niño phenomenon. The Water for the People Network (WPN) called on government to strictly regulate the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterforthepeople.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12696515&amp;post=9&amp;subd=waterforthepeople&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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