The network of Blue Communities in the Swiss Canton of Zurich launches Blue Gastro – with DRINK & DONATE and ‘ZH2O züriwasser’.
The organisation Viva con Agua becomes a Blue Comm... Read More
As the French language service of Radio Canada reports, “water and children are under the microscope of researchers in Val-des-Sources” for Asbestos. From the report by Thomas Deshaies (tr... Read More
The Piura region in northern Peru is facing a historic water crisis, with only 14 million cubic meters of water in the Poechos dam, a volume that only covers consumption for one month. The situation h... Read More
Water and sanitation minister Pemmy Majodina (picture) has been riding roughshod lately, lashing out at infrastructure neglect, and bad and illegal water consumption habits. Both factors point an accu... Read More
News from the Blue Community Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology: Professor Juliana Mariano Alves, Regula Meierhofer and Loïc Fache of the Water Safety Management WSM ... Read More
A molecule of the endocrine disruptor pesticide Flufenacet, used mainly for treating cereal crops, massively contaminates water resources in France.
On September 27, the European Food Safety Authorit... Read More
An excessive water bill due to a break or leak can be a headache for consumers. In Spain, there are no special tariffs for such cases and the consumer has to deal directly with the utility company. Ho... Read More
‘Pune River Revival’ is a passionate team for the citizens’ movement to revive and rejuvenate Pune rivers. The team is led by passionate residents, activists and dedicated ecologists. Amid the o... Read More
Yesterdays news of Canadian water bottler BlueTriton closing down operations by end of January 2025 (see Blue News here) makes headlines again. Guelph Today reports that the Aberfoyle factory might cl... Read More
Bottles of drinking water have been recalled as they may contain dangerous bacteria. West Virginia-based Berkeley Club Beverages, Inc. has voluntarily recalled more than 150,000 bottles of water as th... Read More
The Atoyac is now the river with the most chemical and organic pollution in all of Mexico, according to the latest report on the quality of the country’s tributaries by the National Water Commis... Read More
If it doesn’t rain, Quito’s drinking water is only guaranteed until December. Reservoirs near their minimum level.
The water in Quito’s reservoirs has fallen to lower levels than exp... Read More
Abubakar Batte completed facilitating a 10-week “Introduction to Mapping using QGIS” workshop to the members of the Wobulenzi and Kakooge Town Councils in Uganda’s Luwero & Nakas... Read More
«Why do some restaurants always serve a glass of water with your coffee?» Louise Cordier asks on the French L’internaute. «The origin is not very appetizing» she states and comes up with an inte... Read More
Six months ago, we launched this website, the Blue Community .net, as a platform for and by the Blue Communities all around the world. Since then, much has happened. Where do we stand now, six months ... Read More
The US organisation American Rivers published what they call «A Blueprint to Deliver Clean Water, Strong Infrastructure, and Safe Communities – Priorities for the Trump-Vance Administration»:... Read More
Great news from the Canadian Blue Community Water Watchers:
Water Watchers is overjoyed to declare that Blue Triton Brands, operators of the former Nestlé Waters Canada plants, is closing all their wa... Read More
The company Rivieracqua sent hundreds of notices to users in Andora, an Italian municipality on the Ligurian coast, threatening to block their water supply. This despite the ongoing proceedings to sus... Read More
Decades of lithium extraction at the Hombre Muerto salt flat have left a mark on the local environment, most notably on the nearby Trapiche River.
As lithium projects multiply in Argentina, stirred by... Read More
The Swiss Blue Community Eawag, the Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, and its Department of Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development Sandec publish a new research paper: Ho... Read More
Herders scooping murky water from a small pond in grasslands in South Sudan are well aware of the dangers they face if they drink it. Their chief, Chilhok Puot, says:“The water is dirty becaus... Read More
As New York City endures a historic drought, half of its usual water supply is shut down until June for repairs.
The city Department of Environmental Protection last month began the final phase of a $... Read More
A new study by researchers at the UT sheds light on historical changes in the amount of water humanity consumes to grow the world’s main crops. The analysis demonstrates that despite increasing ... Read More
“How big business is profiting from the growing water crisis” is the title of an 11-minute video report on Deutsche Welle’s English service from August 2024. And it introduces the re... Read More
