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Another COP is coming…

In less than a week, global attention will focus on land and drought resilience as the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (U...
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Panama: Children Without Safe Water

Lack of water, sanitation, electricity and garbage collection affects children in Panama, according to the report ‘Situation of Boys, Girls and Adolescents in Panama.’  23% of the child population liv...
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Switzerland: VSA Newsletter November

The Swiss Blue Community VSA, the Association of Swiss Wastewater and Water Protection Experts, is publishing a monthly newsletter “For clean and living waters” with all relevant professio...
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Ghana: WASH in Budget Planning

The Ghanian Coalition of NGOs in the Water and Sanitation Sector (CONIWAS) has urged all political parties to incorporate Water, Sanitation and Hygene (WASH) policies in their budget planning and to a...
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South Africa: Blue Community in KwaZulu

From the KwaZulu Natal Christian Council in South Africa, part of the Blue Community Ecumenical Water Network Africa EWNA: The Blue Communities Project encourages municipalities and Indigenous communi...
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Australia: Blue Mountains’ PFAS water

More than 40,000 Blue Mountains residents in Australia have been drinking water contaminated with harmful PFAS chemicals. The Environmental Defenders Office EDO, the largest environmental legal centre...
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UK: Ban the Bailouts! Sign the Petition

The British Government is trying to pass a law that could force the public to bailout failing water companies. We need to act now, before it’s too late. The Water (Special Measures) Bill is the ...
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Lessons from COP29: Insulting Exclusion

The 29th Conference of Parties (COP) was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, the world’s first oil town. This years’ COP has fuelled the doubt over the impact of such annual COP conferences, questioning the cre...
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US: Water Warning for Millions

Philadelphia and New York City could face significant challenges to their water supplies as drought conditions and rising sea levels push salty ocean water further up the Delaware River. This critical...
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Ecuador: Quito’s Water Waste and Scarcity

The two faces of Quito’s water crisis: While there are neighbourhoods in Ecuador’s capital Quito that suffer water cuts of up to 15 days at a time, there are also areas where water wastage...
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Living Planet Monitor on Africa

The global Blue Community World Council of Churches WWC launched the “Living Planet Monitor” focusing on Southern and Eastern Africa. Edited by Dinesh Suna and Solene Villota-Jetzer, Volum...
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Crunch Time for Plastics in Busan?

Is it crunch time for plastics in Busan, Republic of Korea, as Jordan Wolman’s article in Politico is entitled? He starts: Plastic is having its Paris moment as negotiators meet in South Korea f...
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Los Angeles: Waste Water To Drink

The Blue Community / Blue City of Los Angeles announces a $740 million project to make waste water safe to drink, the magazine Newsweek reports. The city has been recycling wastewater for outdoor irri...
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France: Right to Water in the Constitution?

Shortages, obsolete or non-existent networks, poor quality… for various reasons, several hundred thousand French people do not have access to drinking water. A problem that particularly affects ...
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WaterWatchers call for Blue Friday

The Canadian Blue Community (Wellington) Water Watchers call for a Blue Friday: Black Friday is about trends and overconsumption, but water protection is always in style. Every day, water touches ever...
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Which drinking water is healthiest?

Health reporter Korin Miller asks  on yahoo!life about the pros and cons of tap, bottled, filtered and more: There’s a lot of information about drinking water to wade through, and all of it raises qu...
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Mexico: 5-year Plan Against Water Crisis

The government of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is making water availability one of its priorities with a newly announced national plan that considers water access a human right. Why it matters...
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Italy: Palermo’s water crisis worsens

The drought, once considered an inevitable calamity on Sicily, is once again making itself felt in everyday life. The Sicilian capital of Palermo has been forced to tighten its water rationing, with n...
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Central Asia’s water crisis and the West

The Caspian Sea, vital to Eurasia’s economy and environment, is shrinking at an alarming rate. The declining water level in the sea is one visible consequence of a larger regional water crisis faced b...
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Floods and Droughts cause Displacement

Some 35 million people lived in internal displacement in Africa at the end of 2023 as a result of conflict and climate disasters, a threefold increase since 2009. Climate-related disasters such as dro...
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Jessika Roswall elected for Europe’s water

EurEau, the European federation of national associations of water services, welcomes the approval of Swedish politician Jessika Roswall as European Commissioner for the environment, water resilience a...
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South Africa: Protesters block roads for water

Protesters from Coronationville, Claremont, and Westbury in in South Africa’s Johannesburg blocked main roads on Wednesday demanding water. Some said they had been without any water for six cons...
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France: Higher VAT for bottled water?

As part of the budget review, senators in France adopted an amendment removing the reduced VAT rate for plastic bottled water, increasing the VAT rate from 5.5 to 20%, while recalling the scandal of i...
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Water reuse against water stress?

“Water reuse, a strategic response to water stress?” A new paper by Mohamed Taha LAAOUIMRI and Timothée OURBAK, published by the French Development Agency AFD, is available in French and i...
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