The Council adopted the revised Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD) the 5th of November. National ministers agreed with the proposal of the European Commission and the European Parliament. T... Read More
Transportation of drinking water to the five Italian Tremiti Islands San Domino, San Nicola, Capraia, Pianosa and Cretaccio – also literarily known as Isole Diomedee – located on the Itali... Read More
A new publication launched by leading European Ocean scientists, titled Navigating the Future VI (NFVI), highlights our lack of understanding of saltwater intrusion into coastal freshwater systems und... Read More
“The water that we extract from nature for various uses must be managed as a common good, a shared good that must be accessible to all, but not appropriated by anyone,” said Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, Specia... Read More
As the American organisation Food and Water Watch writes, the Gloucester township voters overwhelmingly rejected a controversial sewer privatization. Grassroots advocates defeated million-dollar corpo... Read More
A hundred sewage treatment plants buried under sludge: sewage threatens to cause an environmental disaster in Valencia, the Spanish newspaper El Pais reports. While the supply of drinking water is rec... Read More
Denise Freitas Soares de Moraes, a researcher at the Mexican Institute of Water Technology (Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua), member of the Coordination of Water Governance and Capacity Buil... Read More
Unplanned urbanisation and population growth are increasing the vulnerability of groundwater resources, both in terms of quality and quantity in India leading to over-abstraction of groundwater. As ci... Read More
In Amazonian French Guiana, an overseas department and region of France located on the northern coast of South America, river levels, too low to allow navigation, condemn nearly 40,000 inhabitants to ... Read More
«Sediment is filling Lake Powell at an alarming rate. What can be done to keep this water source viable?», Emma Pitts asks on Deseret News in an article published through the Colorado River Collaborat... Read More
Canada’s indigenous communities are still paying the price of colonialism, The Link writes. Sept. 30 marked the fourth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation honouring Indigenous Survivors of... Read More
Millions of households in England and Wales will struggle to pay their water bills when they go up, a consumer watchdog has warned and the BBC reports. The water regulator, Ofwat, has provisionally sa... Read More
Five years after the Xayaburi dam in northern Laos began operations, the cost of Mekong hydropower is becoming ever more clear: “The Mekong Dams Are Undermining the Region’s Climate, Economic He... Read More
The water mafia in South Africa is increasingly targeting wastewater works and local sewage systems to secure extended contracts with municipalities. South Africa has been plagued by a so-called ‘wate... Read More
Dams have taken half the water from Australia’s second biggest river – and climate change will make it even worse, researchers Jan Kreibich and Richard Kingsford write on The Conversation.
The larges... Read More
It is time to get worried, very worried, about water, writes Michael Harris, a highly awarded journalist and documentary maker, on The Tyee:
A global water crisis will leave half of the world’s food p... Read More
Welcome Marcela González Rivas, Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Policy and International Affairs in Pittsburgh, USA, as our new Blue Community Ambassador.«The principles underlying the... Read More
A planet in collapse: the Amazon Basin. An infographic by Sumauma Journal shows river levels at record lows in what is usually one of the planet’s great sources of freshwater, as the vast rainforest ... Read More
A demonstration of San Jose Water’s new Emergency Water Distribution Unit (EWDU) in March 2024 highlighted the collaborative development crucial to creating a rapid-response mobile unit enabling quick... Read More
Are invasive mussels endangering the American drinking water? Two articles in the space of a few days, one about the East Coast and New York’s water supply, the other about California and the We... Read More
Did you know that developed countries send their trash to developing countries, such as those in the Asia Pacific region, only to then label them top plastic polluters? Aside from the damaging effects... Read More
The lack of water in South Africa is the result of a long history of injustice – and legislation should start there, Anthony Kaziboni, Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Development in Africa ... Read More
For many Native communities in the Western United States, poor water quality and water shortages are a part of daily life. Citizens of the Navajo Nation regularly travel up to two hours one way to fil... Read More
Des Moines, Iowa, is a sprawling metro area of 740,000 people surrounded by agricultural operations. In Iowa, where hogs outnumber humans 7 to 1 and corn and soybean fields seem to stretch as far as t... Read More
