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World Water Day Statement 2015
Español | Français We commemorate World Water Day 2015 by celebrating the struggles and victories of the global water justice movements. These achievements are a testament to the strength of our ties of solidarity and the resolve of communities to protect watersheds and maintain control over water services. We supported campaigns instituting the right to…
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The Water Remunicipalisation Tracker
The remunicipalisation tracker mirrors the format typically used by private water-industry publications for listing upcoming privatisation and public-private partnership (PPP) contracts that provide possibilities for commercial expansion. The remunicipalisation tracker’s purpose, however, is very different: to showcase cities, regions and countries that have rolled back privatisation and embarked on securing public water for all that…
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Submission to the Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation regarding water cut-offs in the City of Detroit, Michigan
Maude Barlow, founder of the Blue Planet Project and Chair of Food & Water Watch, recently visited Detroit, Michigan in the United States and heard firsthand accounts from residents who were having their water services cut off by the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD). This report was produced from information gathered by Maude Barlow,…
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Liquid Pipeline: Extreme energy’s threat to the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River
Events are moving rapidly to establish the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River as a carbon corridor for a newly aggressive North American energy industry. This poses the greatest threat yet to these waters.
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Dam Truths: A compilation of case studies about popular struggles against dams
While water is now undisputedly recognized by the United Nations as a human right, communities defending their right to water continue to face an uphill battle against industries that are destroying watersheds. Prime among these is the dam industry, which remains a major threat to freshwater sources and the human right to water around the…
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Tell OceanaGold to stop bullying El Salvador and “Drop The Suit!”
OceanaGold – which purchased Canadian mining company Pacific Rim – is currently suing El Salvador for protecting its environment by denying the company a permit for a cyanide-leach gold mine that threatens to poison half the country’s water source For more information on El Salvador’s struggle to protects its environment against foreign mining and the…
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Our Right to Water
The UN right to water resolutions present an incredible opportunity for communities and groups around the world. It is not often that a new right is recognized at the United Nations, especially around an issue that is as increasingly political and urgent as the global water crisis. The right to water and sanitation resolutions are…
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Conflicts Over Water in Chile: Between Human Rights and Market Rules
Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow writes, “Chile has gone farther than any other country in the world in commodifiying water and creating a market economy based on private water rights…”