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Kabondo East: A Cry For Water

In the East Ward of Kabondo village in Kenya, the scarcity of clean and safe drinking water is not merely a daily inconvenience, but a full-on crisis that robs the community of its future. While the n...
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Water security: Leave no one behind

Over two billion people lack access to safe drinking water – and the situation is set to become bleaker still due to climate change. How do we build equitable and collective approaches to global water...
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2024 in Water: Risky Business

Events that are obscure in the moment often gain clarity in retrospect. The story of 2024 for water, though it is still being written, is one of increasing societal risk that our institutions and our ...
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Liberia: Desperate Plea for Water

Water is life. For Forzohn, a small rural town in Liberia’s lower Margibi County that heavily depends on a creek that glimmers deceptively under the sun, it is a source of sickness and despair f...
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Eawag: POWER project with India

The Swiss Blue Community Eawag, the Federal Aquatic Research Institute, and its Department of Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development (Sandec) launch the POWER project (Penthakata – Optimiza...
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“On the Swamp” with Ryan Emanuel

Ryan Emanuel is a Lumbee hydrologist, a Duke professor, and the author of On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice, which richly describes the rivers, streams, and swamps of what is...
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Water: Bottled or Tapped?

“Do you prefer bottled water over tap water?”, EuroWeekly News asks and continues: Researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine have published a study in the scientific journal BMJ Global Healt...
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Nobel Prize-powered water charity

The Canadian winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in physics is pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars from his winnings into a small Ontario-based organization. Geoffrey Hinton, a so-called godf...
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Brazil: UFLA Project Report

The Brazilian Blue Community / Blue University UFLA (Universidade Federal de Lavras) sent in a report on its promotion of water related projects it developed. From the content: UFLA Develops IoT Syst...
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Poor communities feel the brunt

As South Africa continues to grapple with growing water challenges, residents of Klipfontein View in Midrand are among the hardest hit with frequent water cuts. Recently taps in the area stood dry for...
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News from RadioChico in Mali

From the Blue Community Réseau Ecole RadioChico in Mali, we received this update: It was born in a more complex context, where the country was living in a situation of water crisis. With the main obje...
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Report: A glass Half Empty of Promises

The Tulane Institute on Water Resources Law & Policy published an important new report: “A glass Half Empty of Promises: Water as a Human Right in the Americas”. It gives a detailed in...
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BlueTriton’s exit from Ontario

“BlueTriton’s exit from Ontario shows the effectiveness of bottled water opposition movements”, an article by Blue Community Ambassador Daniel Jaffee in The Conversation is entitled: Blue...
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Blue University PUCPR on Water Justice

The Brazilian Blue Community / Blue University Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná PUCPR did an educational action on Water Justice. The action involved students of different fields and faculti...
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France: Radioactive Drinking Water

Pesticides, PFAS… and now this: there could be radioactive atoms in your glass of water in France, alerts Mediapart. France is relying heavily on nuclear power plants for its energy. An investig...
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World Water Day 2025: Turn the World Blue!

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Information and activities (to be updated continuously). World Water Day, held on 22 March every year since 1993, is an annual United Nations Observance focusing on the importance of freshwater. World...
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Alaskan tribes don’t want gold mine

“Mining and salmon have never gotten along!” Southeast Alaskan tribal groups are decrying a proposed mine in northwestern British Columbia, arguing it will have disastrous environmental re...
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India: Death by Contamination

The Indian daily newspaper The Hindu writes in its editorial “on Indian cities and unsafe drinking water” and demands: “Governments need to ensure safety of piped supply of water whi...
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New York: State of Water Emergency

An Upstate New York village has shut off its water supply and declared a state of emergency. The Village of Whitehall and Mayor Francis Putorti said the Village of Whitehall Board of Trustees voted to...
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Israel: No rain until Hanukkah

Israel’s Meteorological Service reported in an update that the amount of precipitation that has fallen since the beginning of the season and so far across the country is significantly lower than...
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World’s Water Crises: Beyond Growth!

The world is facing multiple crises relating to water quality, quantity and security. Government responses to date focus on a ‘business as usual’ approach prioritising economic and/or green growth. Bu...
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Algae-based Solution for Wastewater

Indian researchers have proposed a theory for a sustainable wastewater treatment method using a microalgae-bacterial consortium to remove toxic ammonium. The method, proposed in a recently published s...
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Chinese Mining in World Heritage Site

Nestled in eastern Congo’s Ituri province, the Chinese-run gold mine is rapidly encroaching on an area that many say it shouldn’t be operating in at all – the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, an endanger...
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Chile: Anglo American faces charges

Chile’s environmental watchdog has laid three charges against Anglo American (LON: AAL) for environmental breaches at its El Soldado copper mine, located 125 km north of the capital Santiago. The Supe...
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