Green Options » world water forum http://greenoptions.com/tag/world-water-forum Posts tagged 'world water forum' Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:16:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Water Not the Only Weapon Used on Water Forum Protesters http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/03/24/water-not-the-only-weapon-used-on-water-forum-protesters/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/03/24/water-not-the-only-weapon-used-on-water-forum-protesters/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:16:04 +0000 Alex Felsinger http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/03/24/water-not-the-only-weapon-used-on-water-forum-protesters/

While my post earlier this week about police spraying water cannons at World Water Forum protesters was intended to point out the irony, the truth is that the situation in Turkey was out of control, with unprovoked police attacks on peaceful protesters.

In addition to water cannons, police in riot gear fired rubber bullets and tear gas into a crowd, arresting 17 Turkish activists and forcing international activists to leave. The group peacefully gathered outside the official forum for the “People’s Forum” formed to oppose the “commercialization of water.”

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Apparently Turkish police have a biting sense of irony: they’ve sprayed protesters at the World Water Forum with high-pressured water cannons.

The forum, which occurs every three years, is supposed to focus on ways to eliminate water poverty across the globe, but protesters believe the forum takes a heavy-handed approach and supports construction of dangerous and environmentally-disastrous large dams.

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