{"id":250,"date":"2006-03-16T09:33:35","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T17:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=250"},"modified":"2006-03-16T11:19:18","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T19:19:18","slug":"world-water-forum-opens-in-mexico-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/03\/16\/world-water-forum-opens-in-mexico-city\/","title":{"rendered":"World Water Forum Opens in Mexico City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_03_16_amit.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_03_16_uprising.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiaresource.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headlines06\/images\/0316-02.jpg\" alt=\"water\" \/><\/a><em>GUEST: Amit Srivastava, Coordinator of the India Resource Center, Director of  Global Resistance<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Delegates from 121 countries have gathered in Mexico City for the fourth World Water Forum. The seven day forum is aimed toward improving water access for the poor. Since the first global water forum in Morocco in 1997, poor people are actually paying more for water. Private corporations like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Nestle control water access more than ever before. Bottled water is fast becoming a staple of poor countries in the Global South. Mexico &#8211; where about 40 percent of population lives in poverty &#8211; is a poster child for this phenomenon. Mexico is now the second-largest consumer of bottled water in the world. Activists at this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s water forum in Mexico City plan to demonstrate against privatization, dam projects and water extraction from impoverished Indian communities.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiaresource.org\">www.indiaresource.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Amit Srivastava, Coordinator of the India Resource Center, Director of Global Resistance Delegates from 121 countries have gathered in Mexico City for the fourth World Water Forum. The seven day forum is aimed toward improving water access for the poor. Since the first global water forum in Morocco in 1997, poor people are actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}