Participants to the First People’s World Water Forum met from 21-22 March 2003 in Florence, Italy.

Convened as an alternative forum to the 3rd World Water Forum held in Kyoto the same week, the Peoples’ Water Forum called for recognition of water as a legally enforceable human right and urged an end to the trend of water privatization. This Forum was also organized as a follow-up to the World Social Forum held in Porto Alegre every January, an event which in itself is held as an alternative response to the Davos World Economic Forum. More information on the 1st People’s World Water Forum is available online at: http://www.contrattoacqua.it