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Making Money with the Water Crisis

Market Outlook: Growth Opportunities In PFAS Water And Wastewater Treatment (2024-2031). The U.S. PFAS water and wastewater treatment equipment market is expected to grow at over 11% from 2024 to 203...
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OIC: Prioritise Water Security

Speakers stress OIC member states to prioritise water security in their climate action strategies. Speakers at a seminar, while acknowledging joint efforts to deal with climate change-related challen...
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Smart Cities Protect Water Bodies

‘How A City Can Become Smart Without Protecting Water Bodies/Wetlands?’ : Supreme Court Summons Rajasthan Chief Secretary. The Supreme Court recently expressed displeasure with the State ...
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Costa Rica: Risks of Water Reform

Costa Rica’s Ombudswoman’s office warns of the risks of the reform of drinking water legislation. Costa Rica’s Ombudswoman’s Office (DHR) has expressed its opposition to the r...
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Canada: Line 5 Action Toolkit

From the Canadian Blue Community Water Watchers: Want to help with Line 5, but don’t know where to start? We built a toolkit to support individuals and groups to take action in so-called Canada...
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Mexico: Challenge of Water for Agriculture

Water is scarce and farmers… irrigate it: the challenge of technological irrigation in Mexico. In Mexico, 75.7% of the water extracted from natural sources is used in agriculture, but 65% of it...
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Planet Earth: The Next Mars?

Mars once had an ocean with sandy beaches, researchers say. China’s Zhurong rover finds evidence of shoreline buried deep underground. Mars may not seem like a prime holiday spot with its arid landsc...
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Canada: Water at Stake in Elections

Avi Lewis, Fighter for people & our planet.  Filmmaker & professor at the Dept of Geography at the University of British Columbia, is MP candidate to bring transformative change to Vancouver C...
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Mexico: Drought in Hermosillo

Drought in Hermosillo: Two consecutive months with critical water levels in 10 years. Moreover, February 2025 promises to be one of the warmest in the Sonoran capital’s recent history. For the f...
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Retirements Affect Water Supply

Labor shortage could threaten Texas water supply. Texas’ water supply — and the state’s economic growth — could be endangered by a worsening shortage of workers in water and wastewater ut...
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First Nations Water Leadership Awards

Canada’s 2024 National First Nations Water Leadership Award recipients. In recognition of their outstanding leadership, Katy Thorne of Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation and the Lower Nicola I...
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Nigeria: Shell Oil Spill Affects Water

Bayelsa community suffers water shortage after crude oil spill from Shell facility. The people of Nigeria’s Obololi Community in the Tarakiri clan of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area in Baye...
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India: Mega Plan Meets Mega Protests

Why a mega river-linking plan has sparked massive protests in India. Thousands of villagers in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh are protesting against a multi-million-dollar river-linking pr...
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Limitations and Barriers to Desalination

Why don’t we desalinate seawater for unlimited drinking water? An expert explains what you’re not thinking about. In his recent interview with ‘The Wild Project’, chemist Aytha...
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Objection to Housing Plans in England

Witney: objection raised to plans for 370 homes by A40. Plans to build 370 homes near the A40 outside Witney (on the River Windrush in the county of Oxfordshire, England) have received an objection b...
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Malta: Call for Better Water Management

Malta’s ADPD calls for better water management. Green party calls for more action from authorities. The greens have called on authorities to better manage the country’s water supplies, blaming ...
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Universal Access to WASH accross Africa

Uganda: Kiné-Fatim Diop calls for urgent action to ensure universal access to water and sanitation. Speaking at a panel discussion in Kampala, Uganda, the Head of Advocacy for the Pan-African WaterAid...
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Warming Groundwater Affects Millions

Warming Groundwater Affects Millions – Not Only Humans. While mostly hidden, groundwater is of central importance to surface ecosystems and human society. Christian Griebler, researcher at the Univer...
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Chile: Blessed and Cursed with Lithium

How one community in Chile is blessed and cursed with lithium. Chile is the world’s second-largest producer of lithium and has the largest known reserves of the mineral, according to the U.S. G...
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‘Historic Pact’ for Healdsburg’s Water

‘Historic Pact’ Signed Regarding Healdsburg’s Water Source. We’ve all been hearing some pretty scary things over the past few weeks about important land-stewardship projects across California losing ...
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Israel to Produce Mineral Soda

While Palestinians are denied their human right to water and infrastructure for water and sanitation is destroyed by Israeli forces: Israel’s first locally produced mineral soda. This launch marks th...
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India: Sanitation Workers Die In Tank

2 sanitation workers die cleaning sewage tank in Delhi’s Narela. A third worker, Anil Kumar, who was outside, entered the tank to check on them and also collapsed. Two sanitation workers died and ano...
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Saving what is left of Himalayan rivers

Saving what is left of Himalayan rivers. Not all mountain rivers need to be monetised, saving them will save us from climate breakdown. Kunda Dixit, former editor and publisher of Nepali Times, revie...
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Kashmir Faces a Water Crisis

Famed for Himalayan peaks and pristine lakes, Kashmir faces a water crisis amid dry weather. For days, people in the Himalayan region of Kashmir watched in agony as a famed ancient spring ran dry ami...
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