This starts Sunday, October 3 in Bolivia the fifth version of the campaign Blue October 2010, an effort that brings together more than seventy institutions and civil society organizations, groups, networks and social media to articulate national awareness and advocacy efforts in defense of water as a fundamental human right.
The campaign slogan this year is called "Water, a common good and human right: a mobilization for life" , according to in July This year, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) adopted a landmark resolution recognizing the right to water and sanitation as a basic human right to the full enjoyment of the right to life and all human rights.
Blue October begins with the Water Fair, a day Sunday information to be held on the promenade of El Prado, which the various institutions and organizations that are part of the campaign present the different facets including this year's campaign, but particularly information on public water management, pollution, access to potable water and sewerage the role of women in water management and climate change impact on major water sources.
L to social mobilization for water this year has extended to the departments of La Paz, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz, Oruro, Tarija, in addition to the ATO and Vallegrande, which will be held in parallel panel discussions and debate, information fairs, street demonstrations, video presentations, dance, theater and other events more geared towards the Bolivian population, in order to generate actions on the rational use of water as a common good must be preserved for future generations and life on the planet.
Blue October is inspired by the Bolivian people's social struggles against water privatization and the recovery process of our strategic resources in the hands of multinationals, from which it works towards a socio-cultural view of water involving society as actors in the definition of public policies regarding water resources in general.
Since 2004, after the Uruguayan people through a constitutional referendum to succeed in getting in Constitution that access to water is a fundamental human right and it does not commodified , each year around the world are engaged in different activities to defend the right of people to water, considering that access to this resource is closely related to development, population growth and poverty.
Experts agree that "consumerist practices" of the capitalist model promoted the irrational use of water, and consequently the city people know the warning of many scientists that the year 2025 two thirds of the world population will have little fresh water.
Against this background the Solon Foundation, invites the various organizations involved in the issue, to join the campaign Blue October 2010 own initiatives or coordinated, in order to generate greater impact nationally and internationally.
