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Benin City’s Toxic Waste Crisis

In the heart of Benin City, the capital of Nigeria’s Edo State, lies the Ikpoba Slope community, a neighourhood affected by environmental pollution. Once a thriving area, it has now become a bre...
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UK: Water Companies’ Greenwashing

Water companies in England ‘use greenwashing playbook to hide environmental harm’. Researchers say companies have prolonged injustice and exaggerated cost of solving infrastructure problems, the Guard...
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Piikani First Nation keeps fighting

A Piikani First Nation environmental group lobbying against a proposed open pit coal mine isn’t happy with the Alberta Government lifting a moratorium on new development and exploration in their terri...
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aeopas at the European Parliament

The Spanish Blue Community aeopas, Asociación Española de Operadores Públicos de Abastecimiento y Saneamiento, took part in the public hearing organised by the European Parliament’s Committee on...
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US: Defend the Lead Out of Water Rule!

The US organisation Food & Water Watch calls for action: 📱 CALLS NEEDED 📱 Republicans in Congress are trying to poison our water with lead, but we can’t stand for it. Call 202-609-9043 now and ...
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The Tijana River Affects Your Health

A federal survey of conditions in the Tijuana River Valley, where sewage and toxic chemicals spill over from Mexico, affirmed what people have reported for years: their household lives have been upend...
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Mexico’s ‘Agua Bienestar’

Agua Bienestar: solution, empty promise or health risk? A closer analysis of this proposal necessarily raises a number of questions that cast doubt on its viability and, more worryingly, its impact on...
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Microplastics in Brains of Mice

A new study finds microplastics can block the flow of blood in the brains of mice. The study comes on the heels of other research showing, for the first time, that microplastics can lodge in human bra...
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Irrigation with Wastewater

With growing population and increasing population density in urban agglomerations and megacities the pressure on regional water resources increases. Climate change may further exacerbate local water d...
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The Struggle against Water Apartheid

The Nelson Mandela Bay Water Crisis Committee (NMBWCC) & Blue Planet Project recently published new research detailing how communities organised to resist water apartheid in South Africa’s E...
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Spain: Water Remunicipalization

Where is the wave of remunicipalization of water supply services in Spain? In a two-part series, Climatica reviews why Spain is one of the European countries with the highest privatization of water su...
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DR Congo: Dam plan busted?

There are plans to build a magnificent, multi-billion dollar mega-dam on the Congo River – one that would produce enough renewable electricity to power vast areas of Africa. The structure would ...
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Trump to override California policies

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday ordered the federal government to override the state of California’s water-management practices to bolster firefighting efforts. The executive order comes t...
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X-ray of the Earth: Water in Africa

The solution for water shortage in Africa or just another way of blue-washing the oil industry, making money for big companies, and exhausting so far unknown aquifers instead of saving water and carin...
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UK: People facing water giants in court

Campaign groups have said that thousands are withholding payment from all 11 water companies in England and Wales due to sewage spills. Water companies are taking customers to court who have refused t...
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Wastewater: Cattle Drinking Sewage

All seven of the South Africa’s Maluti-a-Phofung municipality’s wastewater treatment works are in a state of failure, releasing untreated or barely treated sewage into rivers which flow to the V...
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Ghana: Timeline over Water Crises

Ghana’s Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has ordered the Ghana Water Limited (GWL) to furnish it within five days with a timeline for the resolution of the water crisis in the Krobo...
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Confronting Climate Coloniality

Last week, Prof. Farhana Sultana joined the Blue Community as our Blue Ambassador. Here some information about her very recent book, published in October 2024: “Confronting Climate Coloniality: ...
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Morocco & Canada: Cooperation in Water

Morocco and Canada are joining forces to enhance their cooperation in the water and environmental sectors, with plans to extend their efforts to the broader African continent.  Cheryl Urban, Canada’s ...
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Lake Geneva: Plastic Pollution

100 tonnes of plastic are dumped into Lake Geneva every year, according to a study. A study was carried out in 2024 into the plastic content of Lake Geneva. After more than a year of research, the fin...
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Hydraulic societies: Asian Water History

“Hydraulic societies: Water, power, and control in east and central Asian history “(Breyfogle and Brown, 2023) – A book review by Christine Bichsel, University of Fribourg, Switzerla...
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Anglian Water: The Test that wasn’t

The (private) water firm Anglian Water passed thousands of pollution tests at its sewage plants that were never carried out. Operational data reveals how more than 6,000 pollution tests from 2015 to 2...
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UK: Public Control of Key Services

Andy Burnham, the Greater Manchester Mayor who was previously served in Cabinet under Gordon Brown, has called for key services to be brought back into public control, blasting the “pretty disastrous ...
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The Political Economy of Water

Gemma Gasseau is a political economist working as post-doc at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Firenze, Italy), currently researching eco-social policies in the EU. She posted: During my PhD I often had ...
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