[env-trinity] June 7, 7-9 p.m- Water Forum on Trinity River and South Africa

[Tom Stokely]

Press Release: For Immediate Release, May 19, 2004 

Contact: Dan Bacher, 916-487-4905, email: danielbacher at hotmail.com 

Sagren Govender to Speak on Water Privatization in South Africa at Water 
Forum 

The Central America Action Committee of Sacramento will present a water 
rights forum, "Trading Away Our Water: Who Owns It? Who Gets It?,"  on 
Monday June 7, 7-9 p.m. The event will take place at the Newman Center, 5900 
Newman Court, off Carlson Avenue north of CSU Sacramento. 

Sagren Govender, from Durban, Kwa-Zulu, South Africa, will speak on water 
privatization in South Africa. Govender is the co-founder of Committee for 
South African Solidarity, COSAS, which has an office in Oakland, Ca. He is 
also the Volunteer Editor of South African BEACON. 

Water is increasingly becoming a hot topic in Sacramento, the U.S., Central 
America and throughout the world. Poor and indigenous communities are 
particularly hard hit by water diversions and the privatization of water 
resources by huge global corporations. 

The event will also feature an overview of global water privatization - 
including right here in Sacramento - by Nancy Price of the Alliance for 
Democracy. Price recently returned from an international gathering in Costa 
Rica on how to organize opposition to US-pushed "free trade" (including 
water!) agreements in the Western Hemisphere. 

Tod Bedrosian of the Hoopa Valley Tribe will discuss the long struggle of 
the tribe to restore water and fish to the Trinity River. The tribe and its 
supporters have successfully pressured a number of cities and public 
utilities, including SMUD, to pull out of a lawsuit blocking Trinity River 
restoration. 

Juliette Beck, the California Coordinator and Senior Organizer of the Water 
for All Campaign of Public Citizen, will MC the forum. 

The event will also feature exhibits and brief presentations regarding: 
. rural Nicaraguan water projects, El Porvenir 
. solar water pasteurization, Solar Cookers International 
. ceramic water filters (filtrones), Friends of San Juan de Oriente 
(Nicaragua). 

This promises to be a unique, entertaining and highly informative event, the 
first of its kind in Sacramento. The event is free, but donations are 
appreciated. The forum is co-sponsored by the Women's International League 
for Peace and Freedom (Sacramento), El Porvenir, Solar Cookers International 
and Friends of San Juan de Oriente. 

For more information, call the Central America Action Committee, 
916-739-0860 

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