Please join us to discuss the nature of public water service. w/ David McDonald (Queen’s University, Canada)
Friday, June 13 · 2 – 3pm CEST (GMT+2). By Just Water Futures
Debates about water privatization have tended to construct a simplistic binary of public versus private. In reality, ‘public’ water is varied and complex in its institutional and ideological make-up, illustrated in part by the rise of very different types of ‘remunicipalized’ water services over the past two decades as well as the growth of ‘corporatized’ public utilities. Drawing on over 25 years of empirical and theoretical work on this topic, David McDonald will highlight key tensions and synergies in the emerging debates about the nature of public (water) services.
Speaker: David McDonald is Professor of Global Development Studies at Queen’s University, Canada, and Director of the Municipal Services Project. He has conducted research on public services in more than 50 countries. Recent books include “Meanings of Public and the Future of Public Services” and “Public Banks and Public Water in the Global South”
