
Spanish: 
Bueno, usted antes me dijo que recientemente estuvo
en conferecias en Brazil y otros lados, que trataban todo el tema
del derecho al agua. Y querría que nos contara básicamente cómo la gente está
confrontando la intromisión con su derecho al agua, qué piensan
y qué están haciendo al respecto. Porque creo que es importante que
esta lucha sea comprendida, y luego podemos ver en EE.UU. y
otros lugares cómo está funcionando. 
- Claro. Cuando hablamos de derechos humanos, hablamos
sobre la necesidad humana ¿Qué es lo que necesitamos para sostener un cierto nivel de vida o
para seguir vivos? Y el agua es una de esas cosas que necesitamos. Pero el acceso al
agua ha sido limitado por varias razones, principalmente por el lucro y la avaricia

English: 
Okay when we were talking before we got
going, you told me that you have recently
been at conferences in Brazil and
elsewhere, that deal with this whole
issue of the right to water, and I want
you to tell us basically, how people are
confronting interference with their
right to water, and what they think about
it, and what they're doing about it,
because I think that's an important
struggle to understand, and then we can
get into here in the United States and
elsewhere how it's working. Sure, so when
we speak about human rights, we speak
about the human need. What is it we need
to sustain a certain level of life or to
remain alive? And water is one of those
things that we need, right. But access to
water has been limited for many reasons,
mostly because of profit and the greed

English: 
of a few corporations and governments
who aren't addressing the needs of its
people.
So in Brazil and March, from March 18th
through the 23rd, there was a big forum
called the World Water Forum, where
corporations come together along with
governments, and they figure out
basically how they can make more, more
money off of water by selling it to
people in many different forms. So you
had companies like Pepsi, you had
companies like Coca Cola, Ambev, all
these large corporations Nestles was
there, figuring out how they can increase
their profits, how they can get
governments to open up their rivers and
streams to allow them to take more water.
At the same time, folks decided we need
to organize social movements around the
world to fight that, so they organized
the alternative forum on the right to
water in Brazil from March 17th through
the 22nd, intentionally organizing that
forum to start before the World Water
Forum, and to end before so that they

Spanish: 
de unas pocas corporaciones y gobiernos que no consideran las necesidades
de su gente. Así que en Brasil y desde el 18 de marzo
hasta el 23, hubo un gran forum llamado Foro Mundial del Agua, que
reunió corporaciones y gobiernos, y básicamente pensaron
cómo pueden sacar más dinero del agua, vendiéndola a
la gente en muy diversas formas. Así que tienes compañías como Pepsi,
como Coca Cola, Ambev, todas esas grandes corporaciones -Nestlé,
pensando cómo pueden aumentar sus ganacias, cómo pueden hacer que los
gobiernos abran sus ríos y cauces para permitirles que saquen más agua.
Al mismo tiempo, la gente decidió que debíamos organizar a los movimientos sociales del mundo
para luchar contra eso, así que se organizó el foro alternativo sobre el derecho
al agua en Brasil, del 17 al 22 de marzo, intencionalmente
antes del Foro Mundial del Agua, así

Spanish: 
podría ser agitador, por falta de una palabra mejor. 
- Para dar una idea alternativa sobre
sobre qué hacer al respecto. 
- Exactamente. Así que esto lo organizaron muchos movimientos sociales,
algunos de los más grandes en Brasil, incluyendo uno del que me ve
usando un gorro, del Movimiento de Afectados por Diques (MAB).
MAB es el acrónimo del grupo y fue uno
de los grupos clave organizando esto, porque el problema
del agua los afectaba. Pero también invitaron a la comunidad internacional, así que
había gente de Sri Lanka, de Lagos, de Grecia, de
Italia, de alrededor del mundo, que estaban luchando por el acceso al agua
por distintas razones.

English: 
could be sort of agitational, for lack of a
better word. To offer an alternative idea,
absolutely, about how to go about that. Exactly, so this was
organized by many of social movements,
some of the biggest in Brazil, including
one that you see me
wearing a hat from the movement of
people affected by dams in Brazil. They
go by the name of MAB, which is an
acronym for that group, and MAB was one
of the key groups organizing this,
because they've been affected by this
water issue. But you also, they invited
the international community, so you had
folks from Sri Lanka, folks from Lagos,
you had folks from Greece, folks from
Italy, from all over the world, who were
struggling for access to water for
various reasons.
