A Tunisian perspective on the 2018 WSF in Bahia

I must say that I left Brazil with the same questions that I ask myself after the past editions that I attended. Does it make sense after the lack of political impact of the final edition to keep taking part and contributing to the WSF dynamic?

“Shifting the hegemonic approach to water”

“I think we have to be careful – what makes it into the news isn’t the whole story. There is scarcity but there’s also the manufactured scarcity of who gets the water.” Mary Galvin, University of Johannesburg

More of the same?

“In a broader context of capitalist accumulation, the BRICS are acting based on a logic of competition over natural resources and market access that is imperialist in nature and is taking colonialism back to Africa in modern times”