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The African Water Commons Collective on the causes and effects of four recent fatal fires on Cape Town’s peripheries
November 7, 2018 – 3:21pm Written by Faeza Meyer, an activist from Mitchell’s Plain, Cape Town, and a founding member of the African Water Commons Collective, and an active member of Women for Change, the Housing Assembly, and the Water Crisis Coalit…
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Win! Four German Cities are now Blue Communities!
October 25, 2018 – 3:38pmMaude Barlow and the Lord Mayor of Munich Dieter Reiter celebrate the city’s commitment to the Blue Communities Project. Photo: Olaf Becker/München Maude Barlow, founder of the Blue Planet Project and honorary chairperson of th…
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Global water justice activists mobilize to keep water public in Switzerland
October 22, 2018 – 3:07pm Maude Barlow, founder of the Blue Planet Project and Honorary Chairperson of the Council of Canadians spoke in Zurich last week urging the city not to privatize its drinking water systems. Her intervention comes at a time of …
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United by Water Justice
September 24, 2018 – 10:25am Rural and urban groups come together at South African water justice roundtable discussion in Cape Town South Africa is at a critical conjuncture as communities facing the detrimental impacts of water and climate crises …
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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…
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The right to water is a fundamental human right. No life without water.
PSI General Secretary, Rosa Pavanelli, took the floor at the UN High Level Political Forum during the first global review of SDG 6, water and sanitation, emphasizing that, rather than promoting failed PPPs, the SDG process should look at public-public partnerships that are nourishing around the world. Water and sanitation services underpin our societies and…
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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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Popular mobilizations in El Salvador oppose ARENA’s Comprehensive Water Law
July 9, 2018 – 4:11pmMeera Karunananthan of the Blue Planet Project took part in this March 2014 rally in San Salvador in support of the General Water Law now being undermined by ARENA. Popular mobilizations are taking place in El Salvador as ARENA cr…
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International support for the remunicipalisation of Barcelona’s water supply
March 22, 2018 – 2:54pmOrganizers in Barcelona successfully gathered over 15,000 signatures required to hold a referendum on the remunicipalisation of that city’s water supply in June. Today they released a video showing messages of support from around…
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World Water Day: Brazilian and global water justice activists march to demand an end to the privatization of water
March 22, 2018 – 2:20pmBrasilia – The Fórum Alternativo Mundial da Água (FAMA) or Alternative World Water Forum concluded with a march today that saw 5-7,000 people from around Brasil and around the World take to the streets of Brasilia demanding an e…