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Clean up: Who foots the PFAS bill?

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£1.6 trillion to clean up pollution from PFAS manufactured by some of the wealthiest companies in the world, used in thousands of everyday products, now linked to serious health harms. Who foots that ...Read More

UK: Labour against Rivers

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The UK environment secretary, Steve Reed, is pursuing legal action against a group of anglers who are trying to restore the ecosystem of a river. Lawyers for Reed will argue on Tuesday in the court of...Read More

Peru: Communities without water

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Despite government efforts, many rural communities in Loreto, Peru’s northernmost region covering almost one-third of Peru’s territory, are still lack access to drinking water and sanitati...Read More

Viva con Agua is Blue Community

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The Blue Community in Switzerland welcomes a new affiliate: the organisation Viva con Agua! Viva con Agua has a long history of promoting the right to clean water for all, supporting water and sanitat...Read More

Climate Change and Water Security

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New book: “Climate Change and Water Security Challenges” by Shreya Joshi. “Climate Change and Water Security Challenges” highlights the critical impact of climate change on our...Read More

Canada: Trump wants (also) our water…

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It turns out that President-elect Donald Trump, who will enter the White House on January 20, would like to draw water from the “very large faucet” flowing from the North to water Californ...Read More

UK: Water shortage feared due to AI

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Labour’s first artificial intelligence growth zone will be sited next to the UK’s first new reservoir in 30 years, sparking fears that the AI push will add to the “severe pressure” on water supplies i...Read More

Without Water, We Have Nothing

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Blue Ambassador Caitlin Schroering informs about the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice CSSGJ’s Spring Seminar Series with 8 online talks. The first talk is scheduled already for ...Read More

Sicily: Alarm Bells Ringing

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Alarm bells are ringing in Sicily: the warnings of recent months have gone unheeded and the water crisis is worsening. How often do we turn on the tap without thinking about where the water comes from...Read More

Spain: Drought Situation Report

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The Spanish Blue Community Asociación Española de Operadores Públicos de Abastecimiento y Saneamiento AEOPAS (Spanish Association of Public Water Supply and Sanitation Operators) published the Drought...Read More

UK: Sewage Permit from 1989

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Treatment works that release sewage into a stream connected to Lake Windermere is “decrepit, primitive and inadequately maintained”, say campaigners. The permit, which allows United Utilit...Read More

LA fires: tap water isn’t safe

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Amid the fires, LA is warning some residents the tap water isn’t safe. Here’s why: The warning is stark: “Do not drink or cook with the tap water … Do not treat the tap water yoursel...Read More

Australia responsible for Nauru detainees

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Two decisions from the UN Human Rights Committee say Australia remained responsible for the detention of asylum seekers in Nauru. The committee has published its decisions on two cases involving refug...Read More

US: $700M for Tribal Water & Sanitation

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The U.S. Indian Health Service has allocated $700 million for tribal sanitation infrastructure through its Sanitation Facilities Construction (SFC) Program for fiscal 2025. The program aims to improve...Read More

Canada: Huge water taking permit

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The owner of a gravel quarry on the edge of Cambridge has applied for a water taking permit that’s “anticipated to have the highest potential of causing unacceptable environmental impact&#...Read More

WASH programs in Cambodia

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Cambodia aims to achieve 100 per cent rural sanitation coverage by 2025; however, a concern remains for communities overlooked in “challenging environments”. The Sanitation in Challenging Environments...Read More

River interlinking disaster in India

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The Indian daily The Hindu states: “The political class must note that the lofty idea of interlinking rivers overlooks the huge environmental costs and the eventual deaths of rivers and deltaic ...Read More

Climate Change — and Complacency

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The Caspian Sea is a geographical marvel and a critical resource for the five countries—Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan—that border it. But the future of the world’s largest encl...Read More

Kenya: Private city with private water

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Brave new private world: Situated on 5,000 acres, Tatu City, on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, aspires to be what its name suggests: a city, privately owned, that its designers hope will e...Read More

Elon Musk is tunneling beneath Las Vegas

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company is tunneling beneath Las Vegas with little oversight. Boring Company is constructing a planned 68-mile tunnel system. Because it’s privately funded, it has not gone through ...Read More

US: Contaminants’ havoc after fires

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Parts of L.A. could go days without clean water. As authorities across the Los Angeles area warn against using some municipal water supplies to drink and bathe because of wildfire-borne contaminants, ...Read More

Water emergency in Italy’s Basilicata

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For months now, Italy’s Basilicata region has been facing an unprecedented water crisis, with water being rationed to citizens at different times of the day. The paradox is that Basilicata is th...Read More

Caspian Sea: Oil Giants Fined

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“Kazakhstan Fines Oil Giants Over $6 Million For Pollution”, The Himalaya Times reports.  The Caspian Sea is particularly sensitive to pollution, with shrinking water levels, waste from oi...Read More

Havoc on the Planet’s Water Cycle

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In 2024, natural disasters related to variations in the water cycle caused more than 8,700 deaths and at least $550 billion of economic loss. Record temperatures last year pushed the global water cycl...Read More