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Nestlé Waters agrees deal in France

Two days ago, we reported the case based on a statement by the French NGO Foodwatch. Today, EuroNews brought the case. The non-prosecution agreement is the largest environmentally related one of its k...
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European Heritage Days with Eau de Paris!

21/09/2024

In the Blue Community / Blue City of Paris and the surrounding region, the public water service Eau de Paris is offering you an unforgettable opportunity to immerse yourself in its many settings durin...
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Earth Gives Power Hour on Water

16/09/2024

Join America’s Food & Water Watch Mary Grant and Madeline Kelsey on Monday, September 16 for @EarthGives ’ Power Hour, where they’ll discuss critical threats to our water supply and how you ...
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WASH: No one shall be left behind!

The Nigerian Blue Community Network of Water Rights Initiative – NEWARI announces Episode 4 of the #EnuguWASHRadio series, focussing on women & vulnerable groups inclusion in the Enugu State...
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California towns: no clean drinking water

Drinking water contamination is a chronic, insidious threat in California’s rural communities. Some have been waiting for clean water for years, as Rachel Becker writes  on the Californian platform Ca...
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Eawag project in Albania started

Philippe Reymond & Christoph Lüthi from the Department of Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development Sandec of the Swiss Blue Community Eawag, the Aquatic Research Insititute, started a new...
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We support the March for Clean Water

British citizens are suffering the consequences of years of privatisation and profiteering. Private companies have turned water from a source of life for all to a source of profit for a few. While Bri...
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Alau Dam Overflow: A Call-to-Action

The recent flooding in the Alau community of Konduga local government area and other neighbouring communities in Borno State in Nigeria has left a trail of destruction, displacing residents, shutting ...
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US: Private waters for New Jersey?

Voters in two New Jersey municipalities will decide in November if private companies will take ownership of their water supplies, and a third will vote on its sewer system. New Jersey American Water h...
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Hamburg warns: Beware of fraudsters!

The German Blue Community / Blue City of Hamburg warns the citizens: Beware of fraudsters! In Hamburg-Horn, people tried to gain access to flats to allegedly check drinking water and pipes. These are ...
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Nestlé Waters escapes trial in Epinal

The Epinal court today ruled on the Convention judiciaire d’intérêt public (CJIP, Public Interest Judicial Agreement) in the Nestlé Waters bottled water case. Nestlé Waters was the subject of tw...
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From Senegal back at Eawag

Elhadji Mamadou Sonko has returned to the Swiss Blue Community Eawag’s Department of Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development Sandec to write papers, network & make connections for ...
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Canada: Stop greenwashing!

Beneath the Straits of Mackinaw lies the controversial Pipeline Number 5. Opponents claim the oil line threatens the largest freshwater system in the world and accuse the federal government of engagin...
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Importance of prudent use of water worldwide

The Bangladeshi Daily Observer printed an article by Rusaid Ahmed on the Importance of prudent use of water worldwide: There is a saying in our society: “Water is another name for life.” F...
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Protests in Cuba: Lack of water

The latest protests in Cuba are about thirst: more than 600,000 people live without drinking water, as the Spanish daily El Pais reports. The Government has acknowledged that the problem is due to num...
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Sandec News 2024 celebrated

The Swiss Blue Community Eawag, the Aquatic Research Institute, and its Department of Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development SANDEC celebrate the launch of Sandec News 2024! It covers appli...
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Solar energy for water in Africa?

«The solar pump revolution could bring water to millions of Africans but it must be sustainable and fair», Prof. Alan MacDonald, head of groundwater at the British Geological Survey and head of the IA...
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Flood the Streets! March for Clean Water

26/10/2024

Did you know that over 90% of England’s freshwater habitats are in unfavourable condition, blighted by agri-pollution, over-abstraction and raw sh💩t? 😡

 Enough is ENOUGH. A growing coalition of NGOs,...
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Australia: Worms in Fitzroy Valley tap water

The discovery of worms in tap water in a Kimberley Aboriginal community has brought sharp focus on the provision of water services in the region, revealing very little of a $350 million fund has been ...
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Serbia dried up – water restrictions

Polekol, the Organisation for Political Ecology in Serbia, released a new report under the title «Serbia dried up – water restrictions across the country»: Due to extremely high temperatures an...
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Closing Africa’s Sanitation Divide

The Nigerian Blue Community NEWARI, Network of Water Rights Initiative, published a call for «Closing the Sanitation Divide: Launch of Africa Urban Sanitation Investment Initiative». Although sanitati...
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‘Money for Nothing’: Australian Giveaway

In Australia, one of the driest continents on the planet, water is ‘gold’. Having guaranteed access to groundwater is the key to transforming dryland land into a highly profitable asset. But when that...
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Reforestation work in Mali’s Dogonland

Saturday 7 September was the day of planning for the reforestation of the Telly school in the Dogon region of Mali. The Blue Community Réseau Ecole RadioChico and its coordinator Souleymane Guindo wou...
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Water democracy, an unfulfilled promise

The French Le Monde published an article by Claire Legros titled “La démocratie de l’eau, une promesse inachevée” (Water democracy, an unfulfilled promise). Here the beginning of the artic...
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