Reflections on the international conference to save Lake Chad

Renowned international scholar Horace G. Campbell analyses an international conference held in Abuja, Nigeria to discuss the future of Lake Chad. But “the unspoken question of the meeting was the influence of large water privatization companies such as Veolia in discussions on the future of water resources in Africa. Water activists around the world have been able to reveal consistent prioritization of private profit at the expense of the environment and public interest. Hence, when the LCBC promotes the idea of public-private partnerships to save Lake Chad, it is not clear that the scholars in N'djamena have followed the controversies surrounding French water companies around the world.”