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Partnerships for WatSan Utilities

From the Swiss Blue Community Eawag – Aquatic Research Institute:  Strengthening Utility Partnerships Fostering Sustainable, Resilient, and Inclusive Sanitation in Kenya.  What do partnerships r...
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Promoting Blue Communities in Spain

From the Spanish Blue Community aeopas – Asociación Española de Operadores Públicos de Abastecimiento y Saneamiento (Spanish Association of Public Water Supply and Sanitation Operators): 💧 Promoting B...
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Perrier Water Scandal: Nestlé halted

Perrier water scandal: Nestlé issued a formal notice after pollution, production halted. By Marie Dupin , Radio France Investigation Unit-  Authorities have issued a formal notice to the company follo...
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Publlication: Failed Privatisation in TZ

Failed privatisation in urban water utilities: Can PuPs pick up the pieces? Reviewing evidence from Dar es Salaam, 2005–2018.  By Elliot Rooney.  This paper looks at a viable response to failed privat...
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WCC Newsletter: Together for Water

Newsletter from the global Blue Community WCC – World Council of Churches and its Ecumenical Water Network: Together for Water. As we close this year, our work for water and climate justice is s...
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BLUE TALK with Léo Heller

BLUE TALK with Blue Community Ambassador LÉO HELLER, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights to Drinking Water and Sanitation. He is currently Leading Researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundatio...
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A Milestone for Water Protection

From the Swiss Blue Community VSA – Association of Swiss Wastewater and Water Protection Specialists:  A milestone for water protection – and for the entire industry.  The planned revision of th...
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Water Watchers on Human Rights Day

Newsletter from the Canadian Blue Community ‘Water Watchers’:  What do we want for UN Human Rights Day? Water for all. Join us 💙Today is International Human Rights Day and we want to ...
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Faith Communities: Moral Voice at COP30

World Council of Churches (WCC) Podcast: Faith communities bring moral voice to COP30 as climate ambition falls short In the latest World Council of Churches (WCC) podcast, recorded just weeks after C...
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Today: World Human Rights Day

From the Spanish Blue Community AEOPAS– Asociación Española de Operadores Públicos de Abastecimiento y Saneamiento (Spanish Association of Public Water Supply and Sanitation Operators): 🌍 World Human ...
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Bed & Breakfast in France – all blue!

After Paris, the capital and biggest city of France, the probably smallest Bed&Breakfast in the country joins the Blue Community: the B&B Maré in Mars-sur Allier. Located in the south-west cor...
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Arklan Public School turns blue

End of November, the Blue Community / Blue School project in Canada welcomed the Arklan Community Public School in its network. On its website, the school states: We are proud to be recognised as a Bl...
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Spanish BC aeopas Supports Guinea

From the Spanish Blue Community aeopas – Asociación Española de Operadores Públicos de Abastecimiento y Saneamiento (Spanish Association of Public Water Supply and Sanitation Operators):  Today,...
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Future of Water – We Own It

From the British Blue Community ‘We Own It’:At our event on the Future of Water, organized together with Abundance, Common Wealth and Compass, leaders from publicly owned water sys...
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Kibira National Park Vanishing

From the Blue Community Water Journalists Africa WJA and their flagship project InfoNile:Tea vs Trees: Burundi is Trading a National Park for a Cash Crop. When Kibira was elevated to protected area ...
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Blue Ambassador Erin O’Donnell Promoted

Congratulations to Blue Community Ambassador Erin O’Donnell. She writes:I am so pleased to share that I have been promoted to Associate Professor at Melbourne Law School as of 1 January ...
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Mind the Data Centres’ Water Use

Who is minding the water data centres will use?By Maude Barlow, Blue Community co-founderMark Carney has a plan to turn Canada into the “world’s leading energy superpower,” which includes a nation...
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Senegal: Repression against Water Union

The Blue Community Ecumenical Water Network Africa (Nigeria), together with other organisations in the Africa Water Justice Network (AWJN) have called on the Senegalese national press and internationa...
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“Progress doesn’t always come in leaps”

From Ikenna Ugwu, coordinator of the Nigerian Blue Community NEWARI – Network of Water Rights Initiative:  Yesterday, I shared the #FridayReflection on The Advantage platform, as part of the Ins...
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BC at Sustainable University Day

On 2 December 2025, Sustainable University Day in Switzerland featured an engaging Blue Community workshop, which explored ways in which universities can contribute to a sustainable water future. The ...
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Social Platform: 2026 UN Water Conference

Greetings from the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation. Following up on a previous email, we would like to cordially invite you to join the next...
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Eawag Software Engineer Awarded

Alplakes receives Swiss prize for open research data. James Runnalls, software engineer at the Swiss Blue Community Eawag, the aquatic research institute, receives the National Prize for Open Resea...
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News from the Blue Rangers

Mid October, the German Blue Community / Blue City and district of Landsberg certified its first ‘Blue Rangers’. How young people became guardians of the water. At a ceremonial presentation of certifi...
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Blue Schools Endorse Lake Defenders

Lake Defenders program earns global praise for water stewardship.  Rescue Lake Simcoe Coalition’s youth-focused initiative officially recognized by Blue Community Schools. The Rescue Lake Simcoe Coa...
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