Water Rights Groups Blast Corporate-Dominated Water Forum
<div class='node-body'><p>As the World Water Forum gathers in Marseille, France, for its 6th meeting since 1997, water rights activists are criticizing the corporate-led, profit-motivated gathering as a move for global control of water.</p>
<p><strong>Shayda Naficy</strong>, senior organizer of <strong>Corporate Accountability International</strong>'s Challenge Corporate Control of our Water, slams the forum as a platform for corporations to push their privatization efforts:</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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