Coalition condemns water companies for human rights violations, economic sabotage
The Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) condemned the recent ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in Singapore ordering the government to pay P7.39 billion for supposed losses and other arbitration related costs incurred from June 1, 2015 to November 22, 2019. “The public should be warned that we are not just being asked to […]
Groups opposing Kaliwa Dam call on gov’t to scrap ECC, reveal true cost of project
The Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) and other groups under the Sectors Opposed to the Kaliwa Dam (STOP Kaliwa Dam) network trooped to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) today to push for the scrapping of the application for an environmental compliance certificate (ECC) for the controversial New Centennial Water Source-Kaliwa Dam Project. […]
Put Essential Services in Public Hands
The Senate and House hearings on the water crisis generated a flood of criticisms on the murky water business of Manila Water and its hazy relationship with a government body, MWSS, that is supposed to regulate the company. The system of water governance is bad. The legislators described the system as “inefficient”, “mismanaged”, “incompetent”. In addition, the […]