Featured Resources
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Kenya’s High Court Ruling on Privatization Act: Lessons for Water Justice and Human Right to Water Advocacy
Kenya’s High Court recently made a landmark ruling that nullified the Privatisation Act 2023, signaling a significant setback for the government’s attempts to privatize state assets and meet conditions set by international lenders like the IMF. The ruling, however, offers key lessons for water justice advocates and African Commonwealth nations that share similar legal frameworks…
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The Nelson Mandela Bay Water Crisis Committee Launches a New Report
The Nelson Mandela Bay Water Crisis Committee (NMBWCC) has published a new report detailing the water crisis in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The BPP supported the report’s publication and stands in solidarity with our NMBWCC comrades! Read the full report here!
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AWCC Launches New Water Mapping Toolkit
Making Connections Between our Households and the Water Commons Do you know how much water your household uses daily? Do you know who is responsible for the water your household gets? Do you have the water that you need? How does your water use affect other parts of your life such as health, work, education…?……
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Feminist organizing for water justice in Africa: Popular Education Toolkit
Urgent Action Fund – Africa has released a ‘Feminist organizing for water justice in Africa – Popular Education Toolkit’, with contributions from the BPP and comrade organizations. “This is a toolkit with activities designed to facilitate a popular education process for and with activists who are fighting for water justice in Africa. With popular education…
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Rivers of Resistance: Water for Life, Not Profit
This report intends to capture the current state of play of the global water justice movement in order to strengthen struggles for public and community water systems. It emerges amid growing water crises in many regions, which have come to constitute a global crisis. It is based on conversations that took place at the “Our…
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Womn and Water in Africa: An Overview of Water Justice Struggles
Urgent Action Fund – Africa has released a ‘Womn and Water in Africa: An Overview of Water Justice Struggles’, with contributions from the BPP and comrade organizations. As the authors note “ The work of UAF-Africa is aligned with feminist and alternative approaches to water control and management, which focus on the needs of the…
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Financialization, Debt, and Water in Africa
Water is life, but it is also big business. Over the last 20 years activists and scholars have noted an alarming rise in the financialization of water; that is, water, and the infrastructure to manage and deliver it, is made into something that financiers can invest in to make a profit while ignoring the underlying…
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Women-led Community Water Management
Our partners in Colombia, Corporación Ecológica y Cultural Penca de Sábila, are working with women community water managers to strengthen their involvement in public and community water systems. Read more about their work here.
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Dignity of the waters, a Blue Community in Chile
The Blue Planet Project is pleased to share a video about La Union in Petorca, Chile, a Blue Community.
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Towards an ecofeminist water policy: Notes for public-community water governance
Our partners, Engineering Without Borders, Catalunya, have released “Towards an ecofeminist water policy: Notes for public-community water governance.” “Water is an essential good for life and for many who see it and treat it as a big business. We have already seen the results of treating water as just another commodity, but what water policies…