water privatization

How a Greek Village Guards Its 300-Year-Old Spring From Privatization

In the village of Stagiates in central Greece, residents are protecting a spring that has supplied their community for more than 300 years, resisting the prospect of privatization and demanding restoration of their original water supply. The campaign followed...

Council of State Blocks Athens Water Privatization

Greece’s Supreme Administrative Court has blocked the planned privatization of the country's biggest state-owned water utility, Athens Water Supply and Sewage Company (EYDAP), on the grounds that such a decision could endanger public health. The government had decided earlier in the...

Thessaloniki Says "No" to Water Privatization

An overwhelming majority in Thessaloniki rejects the planned privatization of the local water and sewage company, EYATH, according to an unofficial referendum on the subject held alongside Sunday's municipal and regional elections in Greece. Ninety eight percent of Thessaloniki residents are against the Greek government's water...