Global Water Partnership
In response to th demands made at several key international environmental meetings, a group of agencies and governing institutions, including the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida), collaborated to create the Global Water Partnership (GWP). The GWP essentially carries out the operational mandate of the World Water Council (WWC) and also acts as a "working partnership among all those involved in water management: government agencies, public institutions, private companies, professional organizations, multilateral development agencies and others committed to the Dublin-Rio principles" (GWP, n.d.A). In effect, as Ann Christin Holland points out, the GWP "serves as a mechanism for alliance building and information exchange"[1].
GWP's main operating principle and is based upon the idea that water is an economic good. Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke note that this principle, guided by the Dublin Statement, "lies at the core of the GWP's main programs to reform water utility systems and water resources management in countries around the world"[2].
