News stories
News items on corruption issues and measures to promote transparency, accountability and integrity in the water sector from IRC's newsletter Source Weekly.
Corruption: 2008 global report to focus on water
21 May 07
Transparency International is calling for summaries of research on corruption in the water sector, which will be the focus of its annual flagship publications, the Global Corruption Report 2008.
Mexico: company accuses water commission of bidding procedure irregularities
14 Feb 07
Mexican steel tubing provider General de Tubos y Aceros accuses water commission CAEM of illegally granting deadline extensions in awarding a steel tubing procurement contract to a bid from rival companies Tubesa and Tumex.
Cambodia: World Bank unfreezes“ corrupt” water and sanitation project
09 Feb 07
The World Bank has restored funding for a Provincial and Peri-Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project (PPWSP) and two other projects in Cambodia which were frozen last year after a corruption scandal.
Peru: district government says US$ 47mn wastewater pipeline "useless"
20 Dec 06
San Miguel district officials in Lima plan to address congress to accuse former government authorities and possibly officials from local water utility Sedapal of fraud and wrongful spending of funds in installing the Interceptor Norte sewerage pipeline.
South Africa: political interference hampering Blue Scorpions
06 Oct 06
Political interference is hampering the work of the so-called Blue Scorpions, the department of water affairs’ unit tasked with clamping down on illegal bulk water use in South Africa.
Iraq: corruption slows down reconstruction of basic facilities
13 Sep 06
The US government donated some US$ 45 billion for reconstruction and relief funding to Iraq. However, due to endemic corruption, people are still lacking basic facilities such as power, clean potable water and sanitation.
Arvind Kejriwal: 2006 Ramon Magsaysay leadership award
08 Sep 06
Arvind Kejriwal was awarded the 2006 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership from Malaysia, for his activating India’s right-to-information movement at the grassroots in New Delhi. This included a successful campaign against a water-privatisation plan.
Corruption: Water Integrity Network launched to “keep water clean”
24 Aug 06
The world’s leading anti-corruption watchdog, Transparency International (TI), and five leading water organisations have joined forces to fight corruption through the Water Integrity Network (WIN). The network was officially launched during the 2006 World Water Week in Stockholm.
Funding: UK increases aid for water in Africa, research and good governance
21 Jul 06
The UK will more than double its assistance to water and sanitation in Africa from GBP 95 million a year in 2007/08 to GBP 200 million a year by 2010/11. More money also goes to research on innovative technologies, the African Development Bank, UN Water and citizen's action.
Infrastructure: linkages with growth, poverty and corruption
26 Jun 06
“Rethinking Infrastructure for Development” was the theme of the 2006 Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE). Corruption emerged as the main new area for research in infrastructure policy.
