Water war in Barcelona? In a recent survey the result was that water is not a problem for the Barcelona citizens (only 2% of them asked for a better service). The activists use to talk about a battle, war, and they try to convince the citizens that they have a problem with the water supply. Citizens know well where their problems are. The speaker in this podcast is not giving any kind of reason to justify the "remunicipalization", it is only an ideologic position. She talked about changing the ownership. What does it mean? Forgets that the water service in Spain is always a public service, and the owner is always the public authority. In particular in Barcelona the competence of the water service belongs to the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (Catalan Parliament Act 31/2010, August 3). This is a Public Administration which includes 36 municipalities (http://www.amb.cat/s/es/web/area-metropolitana/municipis-metropolitans.html), Barcelona is one of them.

In this introduction episode, the hosts Emanuele Fantini and Emilie Buist introduce themselves and explain the background of the podcast. They also talk with Peter Mollinga, who is one of the founding editors of the Water Alternatives journal. You will find out how you can start a journal and why Water Alternatives aims to be more than a journal: a platform for both scholars and practitionners.

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Episode 0 - Introduction to the Water Alternatives Podcast

Special issue editors Gert Jan Veldwisch (Wageningen University) and Hans Komakech (Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha) are interviewed by the hosts Emilie Buist and Emanuele Fantini, joined by Margreet Zwarteveen (IHE Delft) to discuss why and how should be reintroduce politics in farmer-led irrigation development in Africa, and beyond.
Read the full special issue here http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/tp1-2/1906-vol12/335-issue12-1

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Episode 1 - Farmer-led irrigation development in Sub-Saharan Africa

What is remunicipalisation? What can we learn from the successes and failures of cities and citizens that have tried to regain control of their water services? We discuss it with one of the editor of Water Alternatives special issue, David McDonald (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada) and with an activist, Miriam Planas (Aiguas es Vida, Barcelona).
Read the full special issue here: http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/current-issue

Episode 2 - Remunicipalisation: The future of water services?

In this episode we sit down with Peter Mollinga and Chris Büscher, both from SOAS, University of London, to discuss Cultural Political Economy; both its hard core theory and its application to the internationalisation of the Dutch water sector. Simon Richter (professor of environmental humanities University of Pennsylvania), Ellen Minkman (PhD scholar at Erasmus University) and Jaap Evers (lecturer in Water and Environmental policy at IHE Delft) join later to share their views on the topic.

Episode 2 - Remunicipalisation: The future of water services?

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