Local Struggles
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Condemnation of Intimidation and Union Repression Targeting Water Sector Workers in Senegal: AWJN Press Statement
On December 04, 2025 the African Water Justice Network (AWJN) issued a statement to the national press in Senegal and international media outlets to draw urgent attention to the grave situation facing Senegal’s public water sector. We at the Blue Planet Project have signed our support for this statement. We call for an immediate cessation…
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Stop the Faure Water Sell-Off: Cape Town’s Future Shouldn’t Be for Sale
An abridged version of this letter was published by GroundUp, 16 April 2025. A group of water justice researchers warn against the expensive disasters ahead if citizens agree to the City of Cape Town’s proposal to “externalise” the implementation and operation of the Faure New Water Scheme The City of Cape Town (CoCT) wants to outsource…
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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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Three Submissions That, Taken Together and Adopted, Protect Our Human Right2water
Our human Right2Water is of such fundamental importance that it should not be used as a political football by political parties, none of whom can claim the support of a majority of Irish citizens. Since 2014 Irish Citizens have led the way in defending our human Right2Water against commodification and privatisation. In doing so Right2Water,…
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International groups express solidarity with the Kalahari Bushmen in Botswana
Blue Planet Project Founder Maude Barlow; Father Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, 63rd President of the United Nations General Assembly; and Focus on the Global South Executive Director, Pablo Solón Romero, have sent a letter to Botswanan President Ian Khama to express their solidarity with the Kalahari Bushmen whose rights continue to be violated by the Botswana…