Water Justice News
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World Water Day 2024: Critical Reflections on Water Justice and the UN Water Agenda – Water, Peace and Prosperity
(Español mas abajo) Leading up to World Water Day (WWD) on March 22, the BPP asks you to critically reflect on the UN’s 2024 WWD theme, ‘Water for Peace’. In its key messages for WWD 2024, UN Water asserts that: Prosperity and peace rely on water. As nations manage climate change, mass migration and political unrest, they…
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World Water Day 2024: Critical Reflections on Water Justice and the UN Water Agenda – Health Crisis
(Español mas abajo) Leading up to World Water Day (WWD) on March 22, the BPP asks you to critically reflect on the UN’s 2024 WWD theme, ‘Water for Peace’. In its key messages for WWD 2024, UN Water asserts that: Water can lead us out of crisis. We can foster harmony between communities and countries by uniting…
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World Water Day 2024: Critical Reflections on Water Justice and the UN Water Agenda – Peace, Conflict and Dignity
(Español mas abajo) Leading up to World Water Day (WWD) on March 22, the BPP asks you to critically reflect on the UN’s 2024 WWD theme, ‘Water for Peace’. In its key messages for WWD 2024, UN Water asserts that: Water can create peace or spark conflict. When water is scarce or polluted, or when people struggle…
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World Water Day 2024: Critical Reflections on Water Justice and the UN Water Agenda
(Español mas abajo) Leading up to World Water Day (WWD) on March 22, the BPP will share a series of critical reflections on the UN’s 2024 WWD theme, ‘Water for Peace’. UN Water’s key messages this year are: Water can create peace or spark conflict,… prosperity and peace rely on water,… and water can lead us out of crisis. Our…
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People’s Water Forum 2024 Bali – Registration and Call for Proposals Now Open!
The People’s Water Forum is pleased to invite registrations and session proposals for the People’s Water Forum in Bali, Indonesia, 21-23 May, 2024. Click here to learn more, register or submit your proposal now!
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The BPP Welcomes the ICJ Ruling on Genocide in Gaza and Calls on Progressive Organizations to Take Action
Alongside human rights lawyers and activists around the world, the Blue Planet Project welcomes the ICJ genocide hearing in the Hague and stands in solidarity with the global community in support of the South African submission which cites the weaponization of water in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The January 26th ICJ ruling found that Israel’s actions…
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Western Cape’s ‘weapons of mass destruction’ entrench ‘water apartheid’
Mail and Guardian coverage of the African Water Commons Collective’s (AWCC) No Holiday Without Water: End Water Apartheid in Cape Town and Gaza campaign launched last December and the impact of water restrictions on the working-class households. “The AWCC wrote a letter to the city outlining its demands for an end to the unfair distribution of water…
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Climate and Water in Permanent Crisis: The BPP Reflects on COP 28 and Looks to the Year Ahead
(Español mas abajo) 2023’s annual UN climate conference, COP 28, concluded last month in the UAE. Numerous developments emerged from the latest COP, including new pledges to scale up renewable energy and commitments to the loss and damage fund established at COP 27. While the conference ended with a call to transition away from fossil fuels, the proposed transition has…
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Tapping into scandal: Unravelling the contradictions of water privatisation
Transferring control of water supply services to private hands erodes equitable access to a fundamental human right. WATER, the lifeblood of our planet, is an invaluable resource that has witnessed its fair share of conflicts. At the heart of these conflicts lies the highly charged issue of water privatisation, a policy that has sparked passionate…
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No Holiday Without Water: End Water Apartheid in Cape Town and Gaza
The African Water Commons Collective, a long-time BPP partner, has released an illustration of the Hydro-Colonial Water Cycle that accurately maps South Africa’s water realities. There is nothing natural, normal, neutral or inevitable about water distribution and relationships to water in Cape Town and South Africa. Accordingly, the AWCC has launched a campaign demanding an…