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Sustainable WASH Solutions Workshop

The Nigerian Blue Community Network of Water Rights Initiative [NEWARI], in partnership with Agua x Vida organized a sustainable #WASH Solutions Workshop for stakeholders in Nigeria #WASH sector. The ...
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Water Crises – From Chad To California

Benjamin Franklin once remarked, «When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.» Franklin’s quote serves as a sobering reminder of the importance of water, especially as the world faces an u...
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Water Watchers: Call for action

Despite a US judge in Wisconsin ordering the Canadian oil company, Enbridge Inc., to shut down the section of the Line 5 pipeline that runs through the territory of the Bad River Band of the Lake Supe...
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The Inequity of Water: local, but…

While Scarcity Is Felt Locally, its Causes Are Increasingly Global. This is what the World Resource Institute describes and analyses. As Eliza L. Swedenborg writes: Water is usually seen as a local co...
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Make a Splash! Turn Schools Blue! 💧

Blue Community co-founder Maude Barlow and the Council of Canadians launch a new project: The Blue Community Schools. In Germany, there is already a Blue School since 2022. And we look forward to see ...
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Nigeria: Enugu WASH policy best practice

It’s week 2 of our  Enugu WASH-Series as we strive to promote WASH Policy that is in line with modern realities & global best practices. This week features Chika Mbah & Christopher Ogbu ...
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Greece: Drying lakes and thirsty trees

AP – Associated Press Climate Report. This summer, southern Europe has been hammered by successive heat waves, following on from below-average rainfall for up to three years. Drought spots on th...
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Colombia: Coca-Cola pilloried

Colombian authorities announced Monday that a Coca-Cola company is the target of an administrative investigation for water captured during periods of drought in a municipality near Bogota, as the Swis...
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Enugu WASH Assessment Report

The Blue Community Network of Water Rights Initiative – NEWARI in Nigeria’s Enugu State participated in a workshop organized by Water Aid Nigeria to validate and disseminate Enugu WASH Sit...
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20y of human right to water in Uruguay

Twenty years ago, Uruguay was the first country to recognize the human right to water. On 22 August, the Universidad de la República organized a commemoration and recorded it. Here the two hours video...
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When Blue Communities meet…

The Blue Community World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Water Network coordinator Dinesh Suna visited the Blue Community / Blue University Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, in Brazil, to...
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Safe drinking water for all

Over half of global survey participants perceive their drinking water to be unsafe! A new research published in the journal Nature Communications found that billions of people worldwide believe their ...
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Germany: Refill tap water here

As part of the Blue Community movement in Germany, the non-profit association a tip: tap since summer 2023 serves also as the central coordination and organisation of the Refill Initiative. a tip: tap...
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Modelling of torrential processes

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Early Bird-Tickets are available until end of August for the Symposium ‘Numerical and physical Modelling of torrential processes’, co-organised by the Swiss Blue Community OST, the Blue University of ...
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UK: Britons love tap water?

How Britain fell out of love with tap water. Britons have always been proud to drink what comes out of our taps. But something’s in the water, writes Ellie Muir for The Independent– and attitudes are ...
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Rights or Revenues? The World Water Week

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...
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Sunday reading: Injured Waters

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...
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Australia: Native title holders launch appeal

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...
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Living Waters or Water Resource?

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...
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Coca-Cola: Champion of microplastics?

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 ...
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Mediterranean Water Emergency

«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...
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Eawag research on mosquito repellents

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...
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Water violence in Nigeria

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...
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“Be Parisian, Drink Tap Water”

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 ...
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