Water Justice News
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UN report highlights water crisis, link between water and energy
March 21, 2014 – 6:21pm Agence France-Presse reports, “In a report published on the eve of World Water Day, (the United Nations) said the cravings for clean water and electricity were intertwined and could badly strain Earth’s limited resources. …T…
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"The Iraqi Marshes: Beauty and Civilization in Danger" Video for U.N. World Water Day
March 21, 2014 – 2:27pm Today we received this message from Johanna Rivera, from the Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative. We had the pleasure to meet Johanna last March in the World Social Forum in Tunis where we prepared and carried out a joint…
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Right to water to be used to promote bulk water transfers in Mexico
March 20, 2014 – 8:26am Octavio Rosas Landa is a professor of political economy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico who also plays an important organizing role with both the Asamblea Nacional de Affectados Ambientales (the Assembly of Envir…
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Report on mining company’s violations in San Jose del Progreso released
March 11, 2014 – 10:49am E-oaxaca reports (in Spanish), “Twenty organizations of Mexican and international civil society presented the report ‘Justice for San Jose del Progreso’, generated from a Civil Observation Mission on Human Rights held in late …
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Water and Politics : Narmada Kshipra River Link in Madhya Pradesh
March 10, 2014 – 10:09am Water has been at the centre stage at the politics for long but it has acquired new meaning after the happenings in Delhi in January and with the forthcoming General Elections. On February 25th senior leader of Bhartiya Janta P…
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Blue Planet Project opposes Volte Grande gold mine in Brazil
March 10, 2014 – 9:55am In a two-page feature article this weekend, the Globe and Mail reports on Toronto-based Belo Sun Ming Corp.’s plans to build Brazil’s largest gold mine, the Volta Grande open-pit gold project. It is expected the mine could produ…
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Help to end Canadian mining crimes in Guatemala!
March 5, 2014 – 9:48am The Council of Canadians’ Blue Planet Project has partnered with the Projet d’Accompagnement Guatemala Quebec to launch a new campaign called The Money Thread. We are calling on people living in Canada and Quebec to show the…
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Water being rationed to 6 million people in Brazil
February 20, 2014 – 8:37am Bloomberg reports that in Brazil, “water was being rationed to almost 6 million people in 142 cities in 11 states as supplies shrink in reservoirs and rivers to decade-low levels.” “The southern cities of Guarulhos, Sao Caeta…
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Bear Creek threatens investor-state challenge against Peru
February 19, 2014 – 6:50pm Vancouver-based Bear Creek Mining has been pushing for its controversial Santa Ana silver mine despite massive protests in 2011 against it and concerns that the mine could pollute the sacred Lake Titicaca. Now they have issue…
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Canada to ‘assist’ Mexico with ‘regulations’ on fracking
February 19, 2014 – 9:10am Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Enrique Pena Nieto attended a signing ceremony in Mexico City yesterday that CTV reports included “an energy deal that will see Canada assist with regulatory development, technology…