WATER ABLAZE - Patagonia Sin Represas

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Jens Loewe lives and works in Stuttgart, the capital of the German
federal state of Baden-Württemberg. He is an activist and the author
of various publications and books. He supports numerous initiatives
worldwide, aimed at preventing water privatisation and rescinding
existing privatisation contracts. He also gives lectures and holds
seminars on water-related topics, such as the political dimensions
involved, privatisation, environmental issues, water pollution and
aspects of quality, as well as on globalisation and the introduction of
genuinely democratic structures.
He is co-founder of the Stuttgarter Wasserforum, a citizens’ initiative
which has been fighting since 2002 against the so-called Cross Border
Leasing contracts and in favour of remunicipalising the city’s water, gas
and electricity supply networks; co-founder of “WasserInBürgerhand”
(WIB), a nationwide alliance of communities trying to prevent the
privatisation of water supplies and to recommunalise those systems
already in private hands; co-founder of the network “Uranmunition.
net”, which demands the prohibition of depleted uranium weapons;
member of the annual “Mut zur Ethik” conference in Feldkirch,
Austria.
Contact: i n f o @ n w w p . d e
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