Dear

CONLOG, Chief Executive Officer CONLOG, General Manager, Dudley Miller

MEINECKE, Chief Executive Officer MEINECKE, Managing Director, Basil Bold

ATLANTIC METERS, Chief Executive Officer ATLANTIC METERS, Commercial Director, Nigel Ebdon

We, the undersigned representatives of organizations and individuals from South Africa and around the world, are calling upon your company to respect the human rights of all people. The right to adequate water is included in various international treaties, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Water is a human right and not a marketable commodity to which access can be determined by whether or not one can pay. The pre-paid water meters produced by your company are strategically designed to deny water to those who cannot pay. This is an outrage and a transgression of basic human rights! Pre-paid water meters were declared illegal in the United Kingdom (U.K.) under the U.K. Water Act of 1998. They should be illegal in every country. We call upon your company to:

1. Immediately end production of pre-paid water meters; 2. Discontinue all current contracts to produce pre-paid water meters; 3. Refuse all future contracts to produce pre-paid water meters; 4. End all research into new technologies to improve pre-paid water meters.

We are aware that governments and private water companies are promoting pre-paid water meters as part of the World Bank strategy to ensure "full cost recovery" and neo-liberal government policies to cut subsidies for basic human services. The public health impact of these policies is devastating. Pre-paid water meters were declared illegal in the U.K. after water cut-offs were linked to increased cases of dysentery and other diseases related to lack of clean water. Authoritative research on the recent cholera outbreak in KwaZulu-Natal province, in South Africa, concluded that its causes were linked to policies of increased cost recovery, the installation of pre-paid meters, and the special vulnerability of people living with HIV to cholera.

We call upon your company to exercise social responsibility. Please end production of all pre-paid water meters immediately. Signed by: Bergen, Norway David Colyer Socialist Worker Wenonah Hauter Marit Moe Disteler Aotearoa, New Zealand Director, Public Citizen Save the Children Robin Hoy Washington DC, USA Norway Reformed Church in America USA Tony Clarke George Baxter Director, Polaris Institute Association Of University Staff Sarah Steiner Ottawa, Water Pressure Group Palm Beach Treasure Coast New Zealand Green Party Jamie Dunn USA Council of Canadians Blue Water Wellington Residents Coalition Project New Zealand Joanne Orengo Ottawa, Canada Social Justice committee, Unitarian Gezien van der Leest Universalist Church of Berkeley The Anti-Privatization Forum The Dutch Grail-movement USA Johannesburg, South Africa Netherlands Salih Booker Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee Bruno Gurtner Executive Director, Africa Action Johannesburg, South Africa Senior Economist Washington, DC, USA Swiss Coalition of Development Riccardo Petrella Organizations Don't Waste Michigan World Water Contract Switzerland 6677 Summitview Brussels, Belgium Holland, MI USA Mieneke Hage Alice Hirt Erika Toleman Grail, USA Papakura Water Pressure Group Michael J. Keegan New Zealand Dorothy Olinger, SSND Coalition for a Nuclear Free Great Global Education Associates Upper Lakes Penny Bright Midwest Monroe, USA The Water Pressure Group USA Auckland, New Zealand Keith Gunter Jeanne Wingenter, SSND Citizens' Resistance at Fermi Two Dr C. Ramachandraiah Office of Justice, Peace & Integrity of Monroe, USA Forum For A Better Hyderabad Creation Hyderabad, India School Sisters of Notre Dame Judy Darcy Mankato Province, USA President, Canadian Union of Public Mrs C. van Thiel Employees (CUPE), Canada Africa-Europe Network Terrie Templeton John Iversen Netherlands WTO Watch Qld President, ACT UP/East Bay Australia Oakland, USA Beth Burrows Director, The Edmonds Institute Alice Dougan Amy Slack USA This Grail Organizational Affiliation: Webster USA Parish Democratic Executive Kim Fortin Committee Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance Scientist for Indigenous People USA University of Minnesota Berkeley, California Twin Cities, USA USA Lutheran Office for Governmental Affairs Michael Powell USA Jamieson Powell Foundation for the Torgrim Mellum Stene Arts Concerned Citizens Coalition of Friends of the Earth Norway , Canada Stockton Norway USA Patricia Cocksedge Yngve Træland Council of Canadians, Mission Chapter Arran E. Thomson Norwegian People's Aid B.C., Canada Oregon Public Interest Research Group Human Rights House USA Students of International Development Anders Boss Holsting Gopal Dayaneni University of Vienna, Austria Enhedslisten - The Red-Green Coalition Project Underground USA Marianne Hochuli Cor van den Brand The United Peoples Berne Declaration Missionary of Africa, Africa-Europe Secretariat in Denmark Switzerland Faith and Justice Network Netherlands Willem Van Leenhoff Justice and Peace Network VMD-Leiden (FoE-NL) Rochester, Minnesota, Franciscan Kristin Dawkins Netherlands Community Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy USA USA Patricia J. Ameno Julian Liu Liane Casten, Pres. Chairperson Citizen's Action for a Safe Center for Economic and Social Rights Chicago Media Watch Environment (CASE) New York, USA USA USA

Tualatin Valley Water District Anne L. Morgan Saint Peter Damian Fraternity Beaverton, USA The Positive Futures Network Secular Franciscan Order USA USA Lynn D. Montgomery Acequia La Rosa de Castilla, Inc. Prairie Island Coalition Janice Goodson-Foerde New Mexico, USA Steering Committee, Bruce A Drew Chairperson, International Coalition for Minneapolis, USA Development Action (ICDA) Jerold Hubbard Belgium Chairman, Morton County CItizens for George Crocker Responsible Government Executive Director, North American Bruce McNaughton Johnson, USA Water Office Secretary, Green Party of Colorado Lake Elmo USA USA Larry Smith Wildhorse Native American Association Edgar Viterbo South Bedfordshire Friends of the Earth USA Plan Phils Judy Norsigian Philippines Peter Mathyssen Exec Director, Our Bodies, Ourselves Papakura Water Pressure Group USA Ole Klammer New Zealand ATTAC Mary Lampert Denmark Joe Parrish Massachusetts Citizens for Safe Energy US Environmental Watch Boston, USA Brian van Dam USA NIL Robert Weissman Auckland, New Zealand Helwegen, A. Co-director, Essential Action Missionary Sisters of O.L.of Africa Washington DC, USA Kate O'Connell Netherlands The Gaia Trust Jacob Rempel Lincolnshire, England Larry Hall President, Vancouver Kingsway The Alert Progressive Conservative Association Chris Keene USA Canada Anti-Globalisation Network Canvey Island, England Louise Mchunu LeiLani Dowell Anti-Privatization Forum Labor Studies Students Association at Pax Christi Denmark South Africa San Francisco State University Denmark USA Sheila Ngobese Kim MacAulay Anti-Privatization Forum Alice Slater Tatamagouche Centre South Africa Global Resource Action Center for the Canada Environment (GRACE) Lizzy Poolo New York, USA Jerry Harris Anti-Privatization Forum Networking for Democracy South Africa Bernhard Weidinger Musa Mbotha Mongi Matsimela Hameda Deedat Anti-Privatization Forum Anti-Privatization Forum, Riverpark Ilrig South Africa South Africa South Africa

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