Resources
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Water is Life, Water Justice For All
By: Meera Karunananthan and Marcela Olivera For more than two decades The Blue Planet Project (BPP) has worked with global frontline communities struggling for water justice—with more than 300 communities successfully taking water back into public hands. BPP takes a feminist and anti-colonial approach that centers around women, Indigenous Peoples and marginalized communities. Water is life According…
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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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Water struggles, anti-capitalist resistance to privatization and organizing politics in Africa
This poster series, by the African Ecofeminist Collective for the Alternative World Water Forum 2022, hopes to creates spaces for conversations on the possibilities of feminist, political and popular education and cultural work. Explore the full series 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.
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Women-led Community Water Management
Our partners in Colombia, Corporación Ecológica y Cultural Penca de Sábila, are working with women community water managers to strengthen their involvement in public and community water systems. Read more about their work here.
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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…