A personal opinion by Roland Brunner.
Today, the World Water Week 2024 starts, organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute SIWI, and lasting until 29 August. Thousands of participants (15... Read More
Injured Waters. What disability taught me about aquifers. By Sunaura Taylor, artist, writer, and academic, in Orion Magazine. In 2017, I arrived in Tucson, Arizona, to research an aquifer that weapons... Read More
In a bid to safeguard water for future generations, the native title holders of a cattle station in Central Australia have escalated their legal fight against one of the most substantial groundwater l... Read More
Weekend reading: It’s widely acknowledged that First Nations peoples value water in ways quite different to the industrialised West. Reconciling the different framings has always been a challenge. Wor... Read More
The French NGO Agir pour l’Environnement highlights dozens of fragments of six types of plastic in Coca-Cola bottles, as the French Newspaper Libération reports. With the help of two analytical ... Read More
«Water emergency becomes part of Mediterranean summer ritual», the Financial Times sets as a title and continues: «Greek, Italian and Spanish islands rely on rationing, tankers and desalination as glo... Read More
When wastewater is channeled back into the river from the sewage treatment plant, the cleaning work is far from over. Microorganisms in the water decompose any remaining foreign substances and contami... Read More
North-central Nigeria has been plagued by fights for control over water and land between nomadic herders and rural farmers. The violence has killed hundreds in the region so far this year. This Wednes... Read More
The campaign “Be Parisian, Drink Tap Water” by the Blue Community / Blue City of Paris is rolling out! MIJE youth hostels, a non-profit association running three hostels in the heart of Paris, in the ... Read More
Almost 350 water conflicts were documented worldwide in 2023, a 50% rise on 2022, which was also a record year, according to the Pacific Institute, a California-based nonpartisan thinktank tracking wa... Read More
Scientists have found microplastics in brain tissue. Their discovery, detailed in a new paper, is the latest in a litany of studies finding tiny plastic particles no larger than a grain of sand in vir... Read More
Blue Community Ambassador Erin O’Donnell writes from Australia: The Birrarung is a living entity, flowing through the heart of Melbourne. Can we re-imagine our relationship with this river over ... Read More
As the review of Enugu State WASH Policy continues, supported by Water Aid Nigeria, the Nigerian Blue Community Network of Water Rights Initiative – NEWARI is hosting a Radio Series to facilitat... Read More
Privatised water firms are imperilling our health and poisoning our rivers. Act now: flood the streets with rage, calls Feargal Sharkey, water campaigner and former lead singer of the Undertones, in T... Read More
Two days ago, we reported in the Blue News about the Water Grab in Australia’s Northern Territories (see ABC’s Four Corners here). Now, a ministerial brief obtained under Freedom of Inform... Read More
Olympic Games sponsor Coca-Cola is under fire for ‘bizarre’ products sold despite organizers’ promise, Doric Sam writes for The Cold Down. Those in attendance witnessed servers ̶... Read More
Save the date to learn why sanitation is important in relation to action on methane at @siwi_www 2024! #Eawag #Sandec‘s @LindaStrande participates in this online session, Wednesday, 28 August, 1... Read More
In Spain’s drought-hit Costa Blanca, people queue for bottled water, as Eva Manez reports for Reuters. A severe drought has rendered tap water undrinkable in several towns along Spain’s Co... Read More
Blue Community Ambassador Erin O’Donnell @EzzyOD reported on a support action in Australia by the Arid Lands Environment Centre (ALEC) @AridLandsEC : Standing in solidarity with Native Title Hol... Read More
LFI deputy Gabriel Amard has published a ‘Manifesto for the public management of water’, published by Editions 2031, in which he sets out on a tour of Veolia’s strongholds with hard-... Read More
It’s time! It’s time to flood the streets. It’s time to #floodthestreets with your rage, your anger, and your disappointment. It’s time to take control. A coalition of the conc... Read More
The Swiss Blue Community Eawag, the Aquatic Research Institute, and its Department of Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development Sandec invite you to attend the Swiss Apéro at the World Water W... Read More
In the red soil of the Australian Top End a new ‘silver bullet’ industry is emerging: cotton. The Northern Territory government is rolling out the red carpet for this controversial crop as part of its... Read More
The Spanish Blue Community / Blue City of Cádiz received great news from the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge: They are beneficiaries of the Second Call of the Strategi... Read More
