Water Justice News
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Local Blue Planet committee focuses on right to water for First Nations
February 15, 2014 – 10:15am Council of Canadians chapter activist Janice Horgos writes in The Chronicle Journal, “Like 99 per cent of Canadians we in Thunder Bay enjoy safe, clean drinking water. But in a country rich with freshwater and state-of-the-a…
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International groups express solidarity with the Kalahari Bushmen in Botswana
Blue Planet Project Founder Maude Barlow; Father Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, 63rd President of the United Nations General Assembly; and Focus on the Global South Executive Director, Pablo Solón Romero, have sent a letter to Botswanan President Ian Khama to express their solidarity with the Kalahari Bushmen whose rights continue to be violated by the Botswana…
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Teck lead & zinc smelter in Trail, BC spills chemicals into the Columbia River
February 2, 2014 – 9:00am Vancouver-based Teck operates one of the biggest lead and zinc smelters in the world in Trail, British Columbia, near the Canada-US border and about 200 kilometres north of Spokane, Washington. The Canadian Press reports, “Te…
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Water crisis in California deepens
February 2, 2014 – 8:30am The Associated Press reports, “Amid severe drought conditions, California officials announced Friday they won’t send any water from the state’s vast reservoir system to local agencies beginning this spring, an unprecedented m…
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Nestle chair comments on climate, right to water in Davos
January 31, 2014 – 9:27am The Guardian reports on various controversial comments recently made by Nestle chairman Peter Brabeck. It notes, “Brabeck was in Davos to chair the council meeting of the 2030 Water Resources Group (WRG), a cross-sector collab…
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Protecting the Mesopotamian Marshes from the Ilisu Dam
January 30, 2014 – 12:43pm As noted in a media statement, “The international coalition of the ‘Save the Tigris and the Iraqi Marshes Campaign’ welcomes the achievement accomplished by the national Iraqi team for the nomination of the Iraqi marshes to…
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WIN! Mexico imposes tax on soft drinks to provide drinking water
January 21, 2014 – 8:19am In December 2012, we noted in a campaign blog that La Alianza por la Salud Alimentaria (The Alliance for Healthy Food) and its member groups have demanded a tax on soft drinks and for that money to be allocated to the introduc…
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Goldcorp may expand Marlin mine into Sipakapan territory
January 20, 2014 – 4:45pm Rights Action tells us, “On January 14, 2014, Guatemalan President … Otto Perez Molina, ordered troops to the Mayan municipality of Sipakapa … in western Guatemala. The armed forces arrived on behalf of Goldcorp Inc. that …
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Four killed in access to water protests in South Africa
January 20, 2014 – 12:18pm The Associated Press reports that four people have been killed in clashes with police in a township in South Africa. “Mothutlung residents had been demanding access to water. Violent protests periodically break out in some po…