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Blue Planet Project opposes ‘water management devices’ in Witzenberg, South Africa
April 26, 2016 – 5:19pm A protest against pre-paid water meters in Witzenberg. Please see this update from our Blue Planet Project team in Cape Town: After winning a partial victory last fall our partners in South Africa are once again mobilizing to contest the commodification of water. In the municipality of Witzenberg, about two…
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Blue Planet Project fights installation of ‘water management devices’ in Cape Town
April 26, 2016 – 5:12pm Please see this update from our Blue Planet Project team in Cape Town: The Blue Planet Project continues to work with allies in Cape Town, South Africa to fight the installation of Water Management Devices. Beginning in 2014 t…
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Global Water Justice Movement Challenges World Bank’s attempt to promote privatization of water through UN SDG Agenda
April 21, 2016 – 1:00pm A letter was sent today to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon by water justice organizations from around the world expressing deep concerns about a new “high-level” panel convened by the World Bank at the United Nations focusi…
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Celebrating World Water Day
The Blue Planet Project (BPP) is celebrating World Water Day by bringing international attention to the importance of global water justice by: 1. Launching Public Water for All, the first module in our Water Justice Toolkit. This resource is aimed at supporting frontline communities in their struggles against the corporate takeover of water. Thanks to…
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Council of Canadians joins with allies to demand Trudeau respond to violence in Honduras
March 18, 2016 – 11:40am The funeral procession for slain land rights defender Berta Cáceres. The Council of Canadians has joined with MiningWatch Canada, Rights Action and numerous other organizations in sending a letter to the Canadian government f…
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Defend the right to public water and sanitation services on World Water Day
March 15, 2016 – 4:37pm To commemorate World Water Day on March 22, we are pleased to announce the launch of “Public Water for All,” the first module of a new Water Justice Toolkit aimed at supporting frontline communities in their struggles against t…
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Council of Canadians condemns the murder of Berta Cáceres
March 4, 2016 – 10:44am Cáceres: “We must undertake the struggle in all parts of the world, wherever we may be, because we have no other spare or replacement planet. We have only this one, and we have to take action.” The Council of Canadians cond…
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Water justice groups urge UN to consider human rights impacts of PPPs in report on development cooperation
February 11, 2016 – 9:38am The Blue Planet Project joined the Transnational Institute, the Municipal Services Project and other allies last week to submit recommendations for an upcoming report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe d…
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Barlow to speak on the right to water in Ireland, Feb. 13
January 20, 2016 – 10:53am Barlow met with Right2Water Ireland activists in Dublin in November 2015. Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow will be speaking at a major conference of about 800 people in Dublin, Ireland on Feb. 13. The Right2W…
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Flint drinking water compromised to save money, now water disconnection notices are being sent
January 15, 2016 – 4:10pm Photo: Michael Moore says #ArrestGovSnyder. The water crisis in Flint, Michigan continues. Flint is a majority-black city of about 99,000 people, situated an hour north of Detroit. Flint’s drinking water supply became contam…