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Ghanaian water justice group recounts campaign against water metering in new report
December 21, 2017 – 5:34pmA new report by the Water Citizens’ Network in Ghana traces the history of resistance to pre-paid water metres and the successful campaign to stop the Ghanaian government’s most recent attempts to implement metering schemes. The report argues that the government’s latest initiative – a direct result of pressures from the…
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Organizations urge Canadian government to cooperate with Costa Rican investigation
November 23, 2017Joint Media Release Ottawa/Toronto – Three Canadian organizations, MiningWatch Canada, Council of Canadians, and Common Frontiers have written to Canada’s Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, calling on the Canadian government to respond to any forthcoming requests from Costa Rica’s new Attorney General, Emilia Navas, in a complete and…
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Water warrior yoga teachers make a splash across the USA!
July 11, 2017 – 8:00amAmber Cook teaches yoga in Chicago and Diana Oppenheim offers yoga classes in San Francisco. Last year, they contacted the Blue Planet Project after having watched the film Blue Gold based on the 2005 international bestseller about the global water crisis by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke. Compelled by a strong…
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A group of Canadian teachers could decide the future of Chile’s water supply
By Meera Karunananthan, Blue Planet Project, Published in The Guardian, June 12, 2017 Leer este artículo en español Currently in the throes of a freshwater crisis, Chile is facing the consequences of Pinochet-era policies that have left nearly all the country’s freshwater supplies and water-related services in the hands of multinational corporations. But the solution…
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Biking for Clean Water from Seattle to San Francisco
June 2, 2017Media Release This week, two yoga teachers, Chicago-based Amber Cook and San Francisco-based Diana Oppenheim, have embarked on a 900 mile month-long Bike for Clean Water trip from Seattle to San Francisco, raising funds and awareness for the global water justice project, the Blue Planet Project. Along the way they will be teaching…
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2nd International Gathering of Social Movements On Water
The 2nd International Gathering brings together people directly impacted by water struggles and social movement water groups, plus — water rights attorneys and policy makers, researchers, scholars, social workers, youth and elders from across the U.S., First Nations and international countries. Your participation will strengthen the global movement for the human right to water and…
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Water justice groups denounce World Water Forum’s “Citizen’s Process”
April 25, 2017 – 3:15pm A letter I sent to the organizers of the Citizens’ Process at the World Water Forum, April 25, 2017. A few weeks ago, I received an invitation to participate in the preparatory meeting for the World Water Forum’s “Citizens’ Process” that is taking place today, April 25 in Brazilia. I…
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Water justice groups denounce World Water Forum’s attempt to co-opt critical voices
Maude Barlow was joined today by water justice organizations around the world who are denouncing attempts by the World Water Forum to co-opt critical voices by setting up a Citizen’s Process to ostensibly encourage civil participation. The organizers of the 2018 World Water Forum that is to be held in Brazil, are hosting a preparatory…
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The Council of Canadians & Blue Planet Project call on the OTPP to support public management of water in Chile
April 7, 2017 – 7:31am Retired teacher Roy Brady helps those attending the OTPP annual general meeting understand what it means to lose access to water. Council of Canadians Peterborough-Kawarthas chapter activist Roy Brady called on the Board of Directors of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) at their annual general meeting in Toronto yesterday…
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Internationally renowned environmentalists urge water committee to end domestic water charges
Two of the worlds most prominent environmentalists and leading experts on water have written to Green Party Senator Grace O’Sullivan, member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Water, urging her not to support metered charges for so-called ‘excessive use’. Maude Barlow, National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and founder of the Blue Planet Project, wrote…