Water Justice News
-
WIN! Council of Canadians celebrates defeat of HidroAysen dam project
June 10, 2014 – 2:00pm The Council of Canadians congratulates its Chilean and international allies for their campaigns to defeat the HidroAysen dam project in Patagonia. This morning International Rivers reported, “We’ve just confirmed that Chile’s…
-
Barlow in Porto Alegre, Brazil
June 6, 2014 – 9:17am Today Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow gave a keynote speech to about 600 people and media at a conference called The International Forum of Environmental ?Management in the Legislative Assembly of the State of Rio …
-
Water privatization, river interlinking for India promoted at international conference
June 5, 2014 – 2:10pm The Confederation of Indian Industry is calling for more public-private partnerships to operate water utilities, set up desalination plants, and even harvest rainwater in India. The Economic Times reports Mukund Vasudevan, CII exe…
-
State-appointed manager pursues privatization bids for Detroit water utility
June 5, 2014 – 8:04am The Detroit Free Press reports, “[In March, Detroit emergency manager Kevyn] Orr began exploring a public-private partnership to run the [Detroit Water and Sewerage] department. The city issued a request for information seeking p…
-
Barlow a jurist on the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal in Montreal
May 30, 2014 – 9:08am Photo: Barlow speaking at the opening evening last night. Photo by Abdul Pirani. Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow tweets: In Montreal as a jurist on the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on the Canadian mining industry …
-
Harper’s maternal health summit and the SDG agenda
May 28, 2014 – 7:00pm Photo: Karunananthan presents to the Open Working Group at the UN, May 7, 2014. CBC reports, “Looking toward 2015, there is the question of whether Canada will wield any influence on the [global] development agenda. In 2012, U…
-
Mexico City residents clash with police over water
May 28, 2014 – 6:30pm Mexico City-based Blue Planet Project organizer Claudia Campero Arena has brought to our attention an emerging water war in Mexico City. Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow has commented, “People of Ameyalco Mexico put t…
-
Top Greek court rules water privatization could put public health at risk
May 27, 2014 – 10:02am Photo: The Plenary Court of the Hellenic Council of State (the Supreme Administrative Court of Greece) Reuters reports, “A top Greek court has blocked the planned privatization of the country’s biggest water utility, the Athe…