"It 's at stake because the Life Water is Life!" Father Alex Zanotelli
Thus ended a recent speech after the government carried out further in the direction of complete privatization of water.
publishing the intervention Zanotelli and I make my request that municipalities deliberino determining that water is a common good mercerized.
" I never imagined that the country of Francis of Assisi (patron saint of Italy), who sang in his Lauds the beauty of "Sister Water" became the first country in Europe to privatize the water! Days ago, we had the last piece that will necessarily lead to the privatization of water. The Council of Ministers, in fact, approved of 09.09.2009 "Changes" Article 23 bis of Law 133/2008.
These "Changes" is inserted as Article 15 in a decree law to fulfill their obligations under Community law. The first of these changes relate to the custody of local public services, such as gas, public transport and waste. The usual way, so states the Decree-management of local public services is the expectation of economic thereof, through tender, to joint ventures, in which the private should be selected through competition,
must have no less than 40% and be a member of "industrial." In a nutshell this means the end of operations in-house and through SPA the majority of local authorities listed in the SPA.
This decree is the result of the agreement between the Minister for Regional Affairs, and Minister Calderoli Lease. And this is also thanks to the pressure of Confindustria, which in times of crisis, local public services have become a source of income.
E 'the victory of the market, the commodity, profit. What is now commonly in our community? It' s the political victory privatization, now carried on brilliantly from the right. Sister is at the expense of water. Today the water is the highest good that will always
more scarce, both for climate change, both for the population increase. That the privatization of water is a serious policy option that will be paid a heavy price from the underprivileged classes of this country, especially the impoverished of the world (in millions of deaths from thirst
!).
Even more amazing to me is that water management is equated with waste management! This is the commodification of politics! We are light years away from the statement of Pope Benedict XVI in his recent encyclical, "Caritas in Veritate, which states that the 'water" is "universal right of all human beings without distinction or discrimination."
All this is linked to the "primary law of life." The management of 'water for our government is comparable to waste! What a shame I never thought that politics could become so much a champion of economic-financial potentates. And' death of politics. "
Zanotelli then asks everyone to:
-protest against this decision by the government through dialogue with parliamentarians, e-mail sent to various ministries ...
-ask MPs to be discussed in Parliament the law of popular initiative for a public and participatory management of water, which had over 400 thousand signatures and now 'sleeps' in the Environment Committee of the House;
-Urges the political opposition say that the their position on water management and to the amendments to 23 a;
-press locally because they convene councils to declare water single issue common good and the water service is "no economic significance", and then press-
on their local councils so that they will choose the Special Public Company total public capital: it is the only way that we is to save water.
It will only be from the bottom to save water as a common good, such as basic human right and so too will save our democracy .
