Uwe Hoering is a free-lance journalist and has published widely on development politics and environmental issues. Dr. Hoering has lived in New Delhi, Nairobi and Bonn, working for the German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau and the Western German Broadcasting Corporation (WDR) among others. He is the author of numerous publications and one of the editors of the magazine Peripherie. On the water Zum Thema Wasser veröffentlichte er u.a. "Privatisation in the water sector - Development Aid for transnational water companies - Solution of the global water crisis?"