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Here on our website and on our Blue News social media channels (see down “Follow”), we report on the activities of Blue Communities from all around the world. Blue Communities are warmly i...Read More

Amazon: Mercury-tainted water

«Drought forces Amazon Indigenous communities to drink mercury-tainted water», the platform Mongabay reports: One year after being hit by its worst drought ever recorded in the Amazon, Brazil is facin...Read More

Will British Water Bosses go to Jail?

Water bosses in England and Wales could be jailed for up to two years if they cover up sewage dumping, under legislation proposed by the Labour government. As The Guardian reports: At the moment, CEOs...Read More

Free Sunday Swim in Paris

08/09/2024

This Sunday (8 September), it’s time to get out your swimming costume and bathing cap, as around twenty municipal swimming pools in the Blue Community / Blue City of Paris will open their doors ...Read More

EAEPE Prize for Madelaine Moore

Congratulation to Blue Community Ambassador Madelaine Moore for winning the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy EAEPE‘s William Kapp Prize 2024 for her article: “Water tradin...Read More

UK: “tackle problems at source”

The Times today published its view on saving UK’s rivers. And the message is clear: Labour’s bill to tackle pollution in coastal and inland waters depends on enforcement. The times states: As cl...Read More

Cádiz: Campaign to clean the fountains

This week, the Blue Community Aguas de Cádiz (Water of Cadiz) in the very south of Spain has begun an extraordinary campaign to clean the city’s drinking fountains to ensure they are well mainta...Read More

Episode 3 of Enugu WASH Radio Series

The Nigerian Blue Community Network of Water Rights Initiative – NEWARI today morning presented Episode 3 of the Enugu WASH Radio Series!!! This week discussing the roles of media & Civil So...Read More

Exhibition in London: Drink Water (until Sept. 21)

05/09/2024

Planning a visit to London? Don’t miss this: Drink Water, the solo exhibition by Berlin and Seoul-based artist Jinhee Kim, is open until September 21 at No.9 Cork Street, London. Location: 9 Cor...Read More

Tiny installs Water Fill Stations

Good Blue News from the Canadian Blue Community / Blue City of Tiny: On Friday, MPP Jill Dunlop joined Mayor David Evans and staff for a ribbon cutting to celebrate the installation of 13 accessible w...Read More

Resounding ‘No’ to American Water

A meeting of the Charles Town Utility Board (CTUB) Wednesday drew several members of the public poised to give comment on an agenda item before the board, The Journal reports. Representatives from Wes...Read More

Alberta: mercury not monitored

As the Canadian CBC reports, a hazardous waste processing facility owned by the government of Alberta, Canada, was granted permission by the same government to operate without mercury monitoring equip...Read More