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All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons

All That We Share: A Field Guide to the Commons is a wake-up call that will inspire you to see the world in a new way.
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Local Control and Management of Our Water Commons: Stories of Rising to the Challenge

Lead author: Dr. Adam Davidson-Harden, Assistant Professor, Global Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University Executive Summary Read the full report
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Lake Naivasha: Withering Under the Assault of International Flower Vendors

Unless they are stopped, the flower agribusiness operations on Lake Naivasha will destroy the lake itself, the community dependent upon it, and the entire ecosystem of the watershed. It is time for consumers in Europe to understand that every time they buy a rose grown on Lake Naivasha, they help destroy – perhaps forever -…
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Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World’s Water

Fresh water is quickly becoming big business, and a preserve of the wealthy. The world’s most fundamental and indispensable resource — water — is fast disappearing. A global shortage of water is looming as the most threatening ecological, economic, and political crisis of the21st century.
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Blue Covenant – The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

“Imagine a world in twenty years, in which no substantive progress has been made to provide basic wastewater service in the Third World, or to force industry and industrial agriculture production to stop polluting water systems, or to curb the mass movement of water by pipeline, tanker and other diversion, which will have created huge…
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Our Water Commons – Toward a new freshwater narrative

Our Water Commons is part of the ongoing work to bring together key activists, writers and thinkers to address the global water crisis by naming and reclaiming the freshwater commons.
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