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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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UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation—Official Country Visit to Canada
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, wrapped up his official country visit to Canada today (April 8-19). Country visits are mandated activities carried out by the Special Rapporteur to gain a better understanding of the country-specific context of water and sanitation. They are a…
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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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People’s Water Forum 2024 Bali – Registration and Call for Proposals Now Open!
The People’s Water Forum is pleased to invite registrations and session proposals for the People’s Water Forum in Bali, Indonesia, 21-23 May, 2024. Click here to learn more, register or submit your proposal now!
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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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The Water Justice Manifesto
Endorse the Water Justice Manifesto here! The undersigned organizations, Indigenous Peoples, social movements and water defenders address the United Nations at the 2023 UN Water Conference to amplify the voices of the unheard and insist that the following fundamental issues be placed at the center of water policies at the global, regional, national and subnational…
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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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Our Future is Public Conference 29 Nov – 2 Dec, Santiago, Chile
The climate emergency, rising inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic have reaffirmed the failures and limitations of the current neoliberal model to respond to crises and ensure a dignified life for all. Transforming the organisation of our economy is needed to confront the challenges the world is currently facing and to create societies that are fair, inclusive, socially-just,…
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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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The Blue Planet Project and the 2022 Alternative World Water Forum
A key member of the International Steering Committee of the 2022 Alternative World Water Forum/Forum Alternatif Mondial de l’Eau (FAME 2022), the Blue Planet Project will be strongly represented in Dakar, Senegal from March 21-26th as the Global Water Justice Movement (GWJM) challenges the corporate water agenda of the World Water Forum. Learn more about FAME…