Books & Reports
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The Nelson Mandela Bay Water Crisis Committee Launches a New Report
The Nelson Mandela Bay Water Crisis Committee (NMBWCC) has published a new report detailing the water crisis in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The BPP supported the report’s publication and stands in solidarity with our NMBWCC comrades! Read the full report here!
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AWCC Launches New Water Mapping Toolkit
Making Connections Between our Households and the Water Commons Do you know how much water your household uses daily? Do you know who is responsible for the water your household gets? Do you have the water that you need? How does your water use affect other parts of your life such as health, work, education…?……
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Feminist organizing for water justice in Africa: Popular Education Toolkit
Urgent Action Fund – Africa has released a ‘Feminist organizing for water justice in Africa – Popular Education Toolkit’, with contributions from the BPP and comrade organizations. “This is a toolkit with activities designed to facilitate a popular education process for and with activists who are fighting for water justice in Africa. With popular education…
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Horizons of Public and Community Water Management – Report
The Platform for Public and Community Partnerships of the Americas held the second Horizons of Public and Community Water Management Meeting from September 25-27, 2023, in Popayán, Colombia. This meeting of water defenders and movement from across the region and around the world was convened to share knowledge and experiences, gain new understandings of old…
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Rivers of Resistance: Water for Life, Not Profit
This report intends to capture the current state of play of the global water justice movement in order to strengthen struggles for public and community water systems. It emerges amid growing water crises in many regions, which have come to constitute a global crisis. It is based on conversations that took place at the “Our…
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Womn and Water in Africa: An Overview of Water Justice Struggles
Urgent Action Fund – Africa has released a ‘Womn and Water in Africa: An Overview of Water Justice Struggles’, with contributions from the BPP and comrade organizations. As the authors note “ The work of UAF-Africa is aligned with feminist and alternative approaches to water control and management, which focus on the needs of the…
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The South African water sector: Municipal Dysfunction, Resistance, and Future Pathways
A report for the Alternative World Water Forum, March 2022Suraya Scheba Read the full article here.
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Financialization, Debt, and Water in Africa
Water is life, but it is also big business. Over the last 20 years activists and scholars have noted an alarming rise in the financialization of water; that is, water, and the infrastructure to manage and deliver it, is made into something that financiers can invest in to make a profit while ignoring the underlying…
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Piercing Challenges and Implications of Privatization on Water Sectors and Options for Sustainability in Cameroon
A report for the Alternative World Water Forum, March 2022. Read the full article here.
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DRYING OUT AFRICAN LANDS: Expansion of Large–Scale Agriculture Threatens Access to Water in Africa
A report for the Alternative World Water Forum, March 2022Read the full report by our partners at The Oakland Institute here.