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Shortlisted book with discount

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Manchester University Press @ManchesterUP communicates: We’re delighted to share that ‘Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism’ has been shortlisted for the book priz...
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Aeopas: protect vulnerable families

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Luis Babiano, director of the Spanish Blue Community Aeopas (Asociación Española de Operadores Públicos de Abastecimiento y Saneamiento / Spanish Association of Public Water Supply and Sanitation Oper...
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Paris celebrates 150 years Vanne Aqueduct

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The Blue Community / Blue City of Paris and its public water service Eau de Paris celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Vanne aqueduct, an emblematic part of the hydraulic heritage of Eau de Paris. T...
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Gaza: Clean water crisis

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UNICEF, the UN Children’s Fund, issued a statement from Deir al-Balah in Gaza’s central area, where untreated sewage run-off formed large pools on the road next to shelters for forcibly displaced peop...
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Tap water at all Swiss railway stations?

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Already today, you can fill your water bottle for free at various Swiss railway stations and help avoid plastic waste. Sometimes they are made of metal, sometimes of concrete and sometimes of stone: T...
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Bechtel named for fracked gas pipeline

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Peace Brigades International PBI Canada report that Bechtel, the U.S. Virginia-based engineering transnational corporation, defeated by Indigenous resistance in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in the historic Wa...
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International Youth Day 2024

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African Blue Communities celebrate and contribute to the International Youth Day 2024. The Nigerian Network of Water Rights Initiatives NEWARI celebrates the power and resilience of its Youth Team Mem...
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Clean water is public water!

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Guess what separates Europe’s cleanest rivers and seas from the UK’s? Public ownership. That’s what the UK NGO “We Own It – Public services for people not profit” reports based...
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Congratulations to NEWARI

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We celebrate with the Nigerian Blue Community Network of Water Rights Initiative NEWARI @WashNetwork : A good way to start the week by celebrating our Coordinator on the award and recognition by @Urba...
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UK: Compensation, but no solution?

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As the BBC reports, UK water companies that fail to meet basic standards will have to pay customers more in compensation, the government is proposing. New rules for what could trigger these payments, ...
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Swiss Eawag’s WABES programme

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The Swiss Blue Community Eawag, the Aquatic Research Institute, documents a community borehole in Wobulenzi, Uganda, that sells 600 jerrycans of water/day! The photo was taken as part of the programme...
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Canadian pensions wasted in water?

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How did Thames Water go from being the darling of market fundamentalists to a financial basket case that cost Canadian pensioners a billion dollars? It is a classic case of corporate greed that stands...
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Tap water at French railways

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Since 1 January 2022, the «anti-waste law» (known as the law Agec) has made it compulsory in France to install drinking fountains in the busiest public places – museums, theaters, hospitals, lib...
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«undisclosed purposes»

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The US Forestry Service ordered a private equity firm to stop pumping water from California’s San Bernardino mountains (see Blue News here). As Leana Hosea, founder & journalist with the UK ...
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Games over! A blue comment.

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On Sunday, the Paris Olympics will be history. How did they go? I’m not really interested in sport (especially not in commercialised events like the Olympics), but I do care about the impact it ...
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Sunday gathering on Lake Simcoe

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The Canadian Blue Community Water Watchers is inviting to a gathering in Barrie this Sunday, August 11th for the love of water. As they write in the invitation: Water is under threat across the provi...
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Arrowhead water bottler stopped!

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The federal government has backed up California state regulators in ordering the company that bottles Arrowhead water to stop drawing from the San Bernardino Mountains. Though BlueTriton Brands draws ...
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Rights for the river? Vive la Seine!

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Not everything went as well as wanted and hoped for at the Olympic Games in the Blue Community / Blue City of Paris and for the river Seine. But a lot of progress has been made with the water quality ...
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NEWARI calls to consolidate progress

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The Nigerian Enugu State Government’s commitment of providing potable pipe-borne water to Enugu residents within 180 days of its inauguration was a pivotal pledge that held immense significance for th...
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«Everybody’s going to need water»

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Groundwater Canada reports on the (Wellington) Water Watchers becoming a Blue Community «for its years of promoting water access as a human right and for standing up against the bottled water industry...
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UK: Ofwat plays the regulator

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The ongoing scandal involving the private water and sewage companies in England and Wales (see Blue News here) also affects Ofwat, the Water Services Regulation Authority, which is responsible for ove...
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Berlin turns into a sponge city

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Germany’s capital, the Blue Community / Blue City of Berlin, has a problem with rising temperatures and drought. Berlin is located in a dry region of the country and water supply is a hot topic ...
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Markets, money, and moral. An essay.

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or: Why private companies are not interested in solving problems by Roland Brunner Our planet and our civilization seem to be on the verge of collapse, doomed to darkness. Climate and water crises, t...
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UK campaign: Take shares not fines!

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The private UK water and wastewater companies Thames Water, Yorkshire Water and Northumbrian Water face £168m fines by the industry regulator Ofwat over historic sewage spills, as British media report...
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