Friday, April 8 at 7:00pm in Uriena Kultur Aretoa, Arrieta we will have the opportunity to see Monopolia, the new documentary by the eco-journalist Ricardo Gamaza. The following article by Ekologistak Martxan explains what it is about. After the showing there will be the opportunity to speak with a member of the Ur Publikoa platform, who will encourage a debate on the serious consequences of joining the Water Consortium and then there will be the possibility of continuing the discussion while having dinner at the nearby Herriko Taberna.
‘Monopoly, Water: Business and Power’ reveals the very serious environmental, political and social consequences of this maneuver to control the water in the territory of Bizkaia and demonstrates the incompatibility of managing a human right such as water as if it were a commodity.
«Whoever controls the water supply will control the people and will be able to subdue them,» says Ricardo Gamaza, the journalist who revealed in 2017 in his documentary ‘Trileros del agua’ the serious consequences for citizens of the privatization of public services. In it’s ok Now he reveals the mechanisms used by powerful groups to control water, even against the decisions of citizens and city councils. «It is the theft of popular sovereignty using public institutions for the benefit of powerful groups and multinationals,» says the director on his new investigative work. On this occasion, the journalistic investigation has been carried out in Bizkaia, where the Bilbao Bizkaia Water Consortium is creating a large water monopoly by absorbing the small municipalities and the other regional consortium that exists, that of Busturialdea, ignoring the voices of the people and of the municipalities. Despite being a publicly owned entity, the “Greater Bilbao” Water Consortium behaves like a private company and has multinational companies such as FCC-Aqualia, the Suez Group, Acciona and Iberdrola as partners in this new water business in which they have also been trying to privatize water in Uruguay and Argentina.
