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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…
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Blue Communities in Latin America: Solidarity and Self Determination
Blue Communities are those that are committed to other ways of relating to nature. They protect water as a common good, are against its privatization and in favor of public community partnerships. The Blue Communities Project is an initiative that was born in Canada in 2009, created by the Council of Canadians and the Canadian…
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Vandana Shiva and Maude Barlow Decry Move to Trade in Water Futures
We are horrified that on December 7, 2020, CME Group – the world’s largest financial derivatives exchange company – launched the world’s first futures market in water, opening up speculation from financiers and investors seeking to profit from the planet’s water crisis. The new futures market is linked to the spot water market in California, a…
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Tasco: Protector of the Paramo, water and community management
For defending the water, for protecting the Paramo de Pisba against extractives and preventing the privatization of the community-managed water system, ASSOCTASCO was declared a Blue Community by the Blue Planet Project, Penca de Sabila and PAPC. Boyacá, Colombia, 2019.
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Water Justice in the time of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic and the global responses to this crisis have exposed the world’s deepest inequalities. Social movements and solidarity-based organizations have a critical role to play in exposing the sources of systemic violence and in supporting the long-term measures to eradicate them. At the same time, marginalized communities are in need of immediate support…
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SDG6: Water and sanitation are fundamental services, privatization is not a means of implementation!
The ambition and breadth of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Agenda has been the object of both praise and ridicule. Some have scoffed at the sheer number of initiatives, describing the 17-goal and 169-target plan as the “leave no target behind” agenda. In addition, the global development plan was produced by a range of actors…
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The Blue Planet Project and allies at the 2018 UN High-level Panel on Sustainable Development: A critical perspective on the progress and implementation of the SDG on water.
Since 2013, the Blue Planet Project has been working with allies to challenge strategies aimed at facilitating the corporate takeover of water through the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. A new report on private sector involvement in the implementation of the sustainable development goal on water was launched today by Public Services International (PSI) and…
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Celebrating World Water Day
The Blue Planet Project (BPP) is celebrating World Water Day by bringing international attention to the importance of global water justice by: 1. Launching Public Water for All, the first module in our Water Justice Toolkit. This resource is aimed at supporting frontline communities in their struggles against the corporate takeover of water. Thanks to…
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Our Right to Water: Assessing progress five years after the UN recognition of the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation
On July 28, 2010, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a historic resolution recognizing the human rights to water and sanitation as “essential for the full enjoyment of the right to life.” This paper examines what has transpired in the five years since these resolutions were adopted and what remains to be done.
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Water at the Heart of El Salvador’s Struggle Against Neoliberalism
Español This paper examines three national-level strategies championed by social movement coalitions in El Salvador in order to address the freshwater crisis by challenging its systemic causes. These strategies include: a national ban on metal mining, a constitutional amendment recognizing the human right to water, and a general water law that legally establishes social control…