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Is Berlin running out of water?

The German capital Berlin is a Blue Community / Blue City. But how long can it stay blue? There are major concerns about the water supply for Berlin and its citizens. In a long article for the German ...
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Hamburg: drinking water for homeless

To protect the homeless from the heat, volunteers from the church’s social welfare Diakonie Midnight Bus in the Blue Community / Blue City of Hamburg are distributing water and, for the first ti...
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«End an experiment that has failed»

While @WorldBank, #BigWater as @suez @Veolia @CocaCola @Nestle keep promoting water privatization or what they call Public-Private-Partnership, England pays a high price to learn the lesson and hopefu...
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Drink water in the Blue City Berlin

As the Blue Community / Blue City Berlin reports, the number of public drinking water dispensers in Berlin has risen sharply in recent years. There are now 224 drinking fountains in the city, accordin...
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Blue School sells water bottles

The Wolfgang-Ernst Gymnasium WEG in Büdingen, Germany, was the first Blue School. By beginning of this year, the school established a student-led company, the WEG Products. It was clear from the start...
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Power to international cooperation

The Swiss Blue Community VSA, the Swiss Water Association, is strengthening its commitment to international cooperation. The VSA is taking the opportunity to contribute its expertise to numerous inter...
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Map for free tap water in Paris

💧 Where can you drink free water in the Blue Community / Blue City of Paris? Discover the new interactive map of the public water service Eau de Paris #EaudeParis and hydrate yourself for free and wit...
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Eawag offers free online courses

The Swiss Blue Community Eawag, Aquatic Research Institute, and its Department Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development, has developed a 4-part learning series on water, sanitation and solid ...
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Paris fights for zero plastic

Since 2021, the Blue Community / Blue City of @Paris has been leading and developing «Le Pari(s) du Zéro Plastique», a network of stakeholders committed to phasing out single-use plastics. The public ...
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WCC about the situation in Gaza

The Blue Community World Council of Churches WCC states in a news release: «Medical doctors in Gaza describe growing needs in overcrowded shelters. Medical doctors working with mobile health units in ...
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Draft WASH Policy by Enugu Stakeholders

NEWARI, the Nigerian Water Rights Network @WashNetwork, together with its strategic partners @WaterAidNigeria  & @UNICEF_Nigeria , presented to the Enugu State Government the Communique from a Ref...
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Congrats to Marisa Boller from Eawag

Marisa Boller from the Blue Community Eawag, the Swiss Aquatic Research Institute, was elected to the Youth Management Committee of SwissWaterPartners, bringing Swiss stakeholders together to promote ...
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Letters to Canadian PM Trudeau

On National Indigenous Peoples Day (21 June), the Council of Canadians was marking the occasion by calling on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to finally resolve the remaining long term drinking...
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Redes del Agua conference in Mexico

Today, Redes del Agua holds a meeting with legislators and in presence of Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation @SRWatSan to discuss the importance o...
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Jaime Morell appointed to APE

Jaime Morell is the Secretary General of the Blue Community AEOPAS, the Spanish Association of Public Water Supply and Sanitation Operators and the hub of the Blue Community in Spain. Today, at the Ge...
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Africa: Access to Clean Water for All

28/06/2024

Ensuring Access to Clean Water for All: Challenges and Solution. Online conference with Mohammed B. Abubakar (keynote speaker Nigeria), Dinesh Suna (guest speaker, WCC Switzerland), Rev. Kolade Fadahu...
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Spanish BC publishs drought monitor

aeopas, the Spanish Association of Public Water Supply and Sanitation Operators and hub for the Blue Community in Spain (see here), published its quarterly report on the drought situation in Spain. Th...
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RadioChico: appreciate our water!

Appreciate our water, the source of all life. A short video message from the Réseau Ecole RadioChico in Mali.https://blue-community.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/WhatsApp-Video-2024-06-19-at-20.09....
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Youth Events in Neustrelitz

05/11/2024

The German Blue Community / Blue City Neustrelitz is organizing youth events about water. On Friday, 8 September, the Neustrelitz Youth Council and Strelitzer Kulturquartier invited to a lecture on ra...
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OTTAWA WATER DROP DELIVERY

21/06/2024

The Council of Canadians invites to the Ottawa Water Drop Delivery on 21 June, Indigenous Peoples Day: With the dedication of hundreds of teachers and Council supporters we’ve collected 700 “water dro...
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Blue Community in Africa Launch

The launch of the Blue Community Africa on 11 June (see our Blue News from 13 June) had an important media coverage. Dr. Alexander Ampaabeng, Ghana’s Deputy Finance Minister, outlined at the off...
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Blue School Büdingen (D)

Wolfgang-Ernst-Gymnasium in Büdingen, Germany, was the world’s first Blue School. This year, the school organised a wide range of events for World Water Day, involving hundreds of students and t...
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Swiss Blue Universities invite

At today’s video encounter, the Swiss Blue Universities discussed and decided among other topics to send an invite to all their partner universities in the global south, inviting them to join th...
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New publication by Eawag

The Swiss Blue Community Eawag, the Aquatic Research Institute, is announcing a new publication: «Biodiversity between Water and Land. Excursions to bodies of water, moors and floodplains in Switzerla...
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