Water Justice News
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Llamamiento en Defensa del Agua / Appeal in Defense of Water
A propósito de la próxima conferencia sobre agua de la ONU en Marzo de 2023 / Towards the next UN Water Conference in March 2023 (English follows) Llamamiento en Defensa del Agua A propósito de la próxima conferencia sobre agua de la ONU en Marzo de 2023 Ante la convocatoria realizada por la Asamblea General…
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Our Future is Public Conference 29 Nov – 2 Dec, Santiago, Chile
The climate emergency, rising inequalities and the COVID-19 pandemic have reaffirmed the failures and limitations of the current neoliberal model to respond to crises and ensure a dignified life for all. Transforming the organisation of our economy is needed to confront the challenges the world is currently facing and to create societies that are fair, inclusive, socially-just,…
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The Blue Planet Project and the 2022 Alternative World Water Forum
A key member of the International Steering Committee of the 2022 Alternative World Water Forum/Forum Alternatif Mondial de l’Eau (FAME 2022), the Blue Planet Project will be strongly represented in Dakar, Senegal from March 21-26th as the Global Water Justice Movement (GWJM) challenges the corporate water agenda of the World Water Forum. Learn more about FAME…
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No New Water on Earth, Only New Battlegrounds
Coumba Toure, @Kuumbati Storyteller; Movement Co-coordinator, Africans Rising; Board Chair, TrustAfrica Koni Benson, Organiser and historian at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa; Research Fellow, Blue Planet Project Meera Karunananthan, Feminist geographer, Carleton University – Canada; Co-director, Blue Planet Project The Alternative World Water Forum – Forum Alternatif Mondial de l’Eau (FAME) in French —…
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Autogestión, reclaiming the right to self-management of water
Twenty years after the Water War in Cochabamba (Bolivia), Marcela Olivera and Stefano Archidiacono reflect on “autogestión” of water as a practical and cultural dimension of the commons. A new piece for the series “Reimagining, remembering, and reclaiming water: from extractivism to commoning”. Although Bolivia was born as a centralist and unitarian state, there has always…
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New Packaging, Same Deal: City of Cape Town’s New Proposal to Replace Water Management Devices with the Drip System will further Water Apartheid
The City of Cape Town seems to have finally realised, after 15 years of grassroots organizing that Water Management Devices (WMD) need to go. The bad news is that its new proposal will continue to deprive people of adequate water supplies.
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Blue Communities in Latin America: Solidarity and Self Determination
Blue Communities are those that are committed to other ways of relating to nature. They protect water as a common good, are against its privatization and in favor of public community partnerships. The Blue Communities Project is an initiative that was born in Canada in 2009, created by the Council of Canadians and the Canadian…
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Vandana Shiva and Maude Barlow Decry Move to Trade in Water Futures
We are horrified that on December 7, 2020, CME Group – the world’s largest financial derivatives exchange company – launched the world’s first futures market in water, opening up speculation from financiers and investors seeking to profit from the planet’s water crisis. The new futures market is linked to the spot water market in California, a…
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Water Justice in the time of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic and the global responses to this crisis have exposed the world’s deepest inequalities. Social movements and solidarity-based organizations have a critical role to play in exposing the sources of systemic violence and in supporting the long-term measures to eradicate them. At the same time, marginalized communities are in need of immediate support…
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Brussels Capital Region – a new European Blue Community!
December 4, 2019 – 2:28pmEuropean Blue Communities meeting I have just returned from Brussels where we wrapped up the first European Blue Communities meeting, co-sponsored by the Blue Planet Project, the European Federation of Public Service Unions, th…