May Day 24
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From Silos to A Pan-African Front: The Africa Water Justice Network, Uniting Water Commoning Struggles Against Capital
22 March 2024 Millions on the African continent do not have access to clean drinking water. The current state can be traced back to Africa’s colonial past, when water was claimed and used for colonial economic projects only, with access for social uses restricted based on race and class. This legacy continues today, as water…
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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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Horizons of Public and Community Water Management – Report
The Platform for Public and Community Partnerships of the Americas held the second Horizons of Public and Community Water Management Meeting from September 25-27, 2023, in Popayán, Colombia. This meeting of water defenders and movement from across the region and around the world was convened to share knowledge and experiences, gain new understandings of old…
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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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Water is Life, Water Justice For All
By: Meera Karunananthan and Marcela Olivera For more than two decades The Blue Planet Project (BPP) has worked with global frontline communities struggling for water justice—with more than 300 communities successfully taking water back into public hands. BPP takes a feminist and anti-colonial approach that centers around women, Indigenous Peoples and marginalized communities. Water is life According…
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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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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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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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A Crisis for Who?! Social Reproduction and The Social Relations of the Cape Town Water Crisis
Blue Planet Project Research Fellow Adrian Murray traveled to Cape Town in March, at the height of the city’s water crisis. These are his reflections, accompanied by photos exploring the the daily experience of water and sanitation in one of the city’s many informal settlements. //embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js After several years of drought, water levels in the…