These are floods of historic proportions. The entire north-east and east of Senegal have been hit by flooding for weeks. Houses have been destroyed, bridges demolished, schools closed and fields flood... Read More
The rising tide of water-related conflicts has emerged as a significant global concern, particularly in regions like Asia and Africa. Between 1990 and 2023, at least 1,473 instances of violence, confl... Read More
The state announced it was beginning the process to regulate groundwater in Willcox, where industrial farming has drained the aquifer, a big step to reign in the overconsumption of underground water s... Read More
On Saturday, 26 October, 2024, the first ever training session for the Blue Community Mali team took place, organized by the Réseau Ecole RadioChico Mali. The educational training started with an exte... Read More
If you want to see where privatisation leads, look at the UK. Follow the money is always a good advice. And the Financial Times did just that in an article entitled “Tory treasurer’s water compa... Read More
Rio Grande Valley farmers who have seen their industry devastated by insufficient rain and depleting water reserves have been offered up a modest but helpful amount of water for their dried-up land. T... Read More
Residents, boaters, anglers and river lovers had their first say on the overall relicensing applicaiton for Southern California Edison’s power plant above Kernville and they uniformly demanded more wa... Read More
The Indian government has introduced stricter regulations to reduce water waste, mandating bulk consumers to reuse 50% of their wastewater by 2031. Entities consuming over 5,000 liters daily must regi... Read More
Facing tens of thousands of lawsuits after it acquired Monsanto, Bayer promised to remove cancer-linked glyphosate from its commercial Roundup weed killers by 2023. But an analysis published by Friend... Read More
Imagine you are running a private business and you are not subject to any control, you are allowed to monitor yourself. And instead of faking the results of your self-monitoring, you decide not to do ... Read More
Conservation experts are exploring ways to protect the thriving, pristine sources of some of Africa’s most iconic rivers in Southeast Angola, to maintain their condition for the benefit of nature and ... Read More
The Biden and Newsom administrations will soon adopt new rules for California’s major water delivery systems that will determine how much water may be pumped from rivers while providing protections fo... Read More
The city of Piura in the very north of Peru could run out of drinking water in less than a month, Evelin Meza Capcha reports for the platform Infobae. The region is facing a severe drought that has dr... Read More
The Union populaire pour la Libération de la Guadeloupe (UPLG, Popular Front for the Liberation of Guadeloupe, held by France as a colony), had a press conference on the Report on human rights violati... Read More
Anthropologists and local activists in Indonesia and Peru uncover links between water scarcity and gendered violence, and work together to lessen the harms of gender inequality.
Worldwide, water inse... Read More
The once-mighty Rio Grande is barely a trickle through much of West Texas. Scientists and advocates say local initiatives could be scaled up to restore flows to the river, Martha Pskowski reports for ... Read More
The Swiss Blue Community / Blue City of St.Gallen supports two aid projects to improve water supply in Zambia. The City is donating a total of €40,000 to two aid projects. The contributions come from ... Read More
The company Pure Salmon, financed by a Singaporean fund, wants to install a giant salmon farming site on the French Atlantic seaside in Verdon-sur-Mer, close to Bordeaux, to produce 5% of the salmon c... Read More
The privatisation of water “is an absolute perversion in the name of efficiency. A lie! It is in the name of business,” said Pedro Arrojo Agudo, United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on t... Read More
Lawyers acting for victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster have said they will pursue their claim in the UK despite the announcement of a $31bn (£23.9bn) settlement between the Anglo-Australi... Read More
On 24th of October, 2024, a 17-member delegation from the Blue Community Ecumenical Water Network Africa (EWN Africa), which included representatives from the Student Christian Movement of Nigeria, th... Read More
The state of Hidalgo, north of Mexico City, is home to a place that was once a paradise and has become a living hell for its inhabitants. The waters of the dam and the wells are completely contaminate... Read More
Election Day is just two weeks away, and the high-octane race for president is consuming almost all the media’s attention. Perhaps nowhere is the election intensity higher than in Arizona, Jake Bittle... Read More
California has one of the most highly engineered water delivery systems on the planet, and it could soon get a new extension. The Delta Conveyance Tunnel is Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposal for a $20 ... Read More
