{"id":2389,"date":"2025-12-16T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2026-03-02T11:15:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T10:15:53","slug":"take-back-control-of-our-water-but-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/fr\/2025\/12\/16\/take-back-control-of-our-water-but-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Reprenez le contr\u00f4le de notre eau! Mais comment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Frances Cleaver, Emeritus Professor at the Lancaster Environment Centre (University of Lancaster) and former visiting researcher at the MAK\u2019IT Institute (2023\u20132024), will speak at the upcoming ICIREWARD-SHS seminar.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The privatized water system in England is in a constant state of crisis, with recurring sewage discharges, rising household bills, excessive financial profits, and criminal prosecutions against water companies. The crisis is widely covered in the media, and 82% of the population supports public ownership of water. So why are policymakers so reluctant to regain control of the water system?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this seminar, Frances Cleaver will discuss the work of the People\u2019s Commission on the Water Sector, an initiative aimed at presenting an evidence-based case for public ownership. She will explain why the transition from a failing private system to public management remains so difficult to implement in England, despite positive examples in other European countries.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frances Cleaver, Emeritus Professor at the Lancaster Environment Centre (University of Lancaster) and former visiting researcher at the MAK\u2019IT Institute (2023\u20132024), will speak at the upcoming ICIREWARD-SHS seminar. The privatized water system in England is in a constant state of crisis, with recurring sewage discharges, rising household bills, excessive financial profits, and criminal prosecutions against&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1087,"featured_media":1934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"2218,1995,1112,1107,1124,1070","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29229,29407],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites-en","category-seminar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1087"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}