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US: San Joaquin Valley’s Kern River

Residents, boaters, anglers and river lovers had their first say on the overall relicensing applicaiton for Southern California Edison’s power plant above Kernville and they uniformly demanded more wa...
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India: stricter water reuse regulations

The Indian government has introduced stricter regulations to reduce water waste, mandating bulk consumers to reuse 50% of their wastewater by 2031. Entities consuming over 5,000 liters daily must regi...
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New Roundup: 45 Times More Toxic

Facing tens of thousands of lawsuits after it acquired Monsanto, Bayer promised to remove cancer-linked glyphosate from its commercial Roundup weed killers by 2023. But an analysis published by Friend...
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UK: Self-monitoring failed completely

Imagine you are running a private business and you are not subject to any control, you are allowed to monitor yourself. And instead of faking the results of your self-monitoring, you decide not to do ...
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Angola: Protect River Sources

Conservation experts are exploring ways to protect the thriving, pristine sources of some of Africa’s most iconic rivers in Southeast Angola, to maintain their condition for the benefit of nature and ...
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California: New Water Plans

The Biden and Newsom administrations will soon adopt new rules for California’s major water delivery systems that will determine how much water may be pumped from rivers while providing protections fo...
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Peru: Piura out of water in a month?

The city of Piura in the very north of Peru could run out of drinking water in less than a month, Evelin Meza Capcha reports for the platform Infobae. The region is facing a severe drought that has dr...
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Guadeloupe: “Our water is toxic”

The Union populaire pour la Libération de la Guadeloupe (UPLG, Popular Front for the Liberation of Guadeloupe, held by France as a colony), had a press conference on the Report on human rights violati...
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Water Insecurity and Women’s Health

Anthropologists and local activists in Indonesia and Peru uncover links between water scarcity and gendered violence, and work together to lessen the harms of gender inequality. Worldwide, water inse...
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Rio Grande: Holding Out Hope

The once-mighty Rio Grande is barely a trickle through much of West Texas. Scientists and advocates say local initiatives could be scaled up to restore flows to the river, Martha Pskowski reports for ...
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Blue Community support for Zambia

The Swiss Blue Community / Blue City of St.Gallen supports two aid projects to improve water supply in Zambia. The City is donating a total of €40,000 to two aid projects. The contributions come from ...
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France: Water concerns over salmon farm

The company Pure Salmon, financed by a Singaporean fund, wants to install a giant salmon farming site on the French Atlantic seaside in Verdon-sur-Mer, close to Bordeaux, to produce 5% of the salmon c...
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Mexico: Risks of privatizing water

The privatisation of water “is an absolute perversion in the name of efficiency. A lie! It is in the name of business,” said Pedro Arrojo Agudo, United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on t...
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Brazil’s victims pursue claim in UK

Lawyers acting for victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster have said they will pursue their claim in the UK despite the announcement of a $31bn (£23.9bn) settlement between the Anglo-Australi...
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EWNA delegation visited Oyo State

On 24th of October, 2024, a 17-member delegation from the Blue Community Ecumenical Water Network Africa (EWN Africa), which included representatives from the Student Christian Movement of Nigeria, th...
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Mexico: The Endhó Dam disaster

The state of Hidalgo, north of Mexico City, is home to a place that was once a paradise and has become a living hell for its inhabitants. The waters of the dam and the wells are completely contaminate...
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US: The water election that wasn’t

Election Day is just two weeks away, and the high-octane race for president is consuming almost all the media’s attention. Perhaps nowhere is the election intensity higher than in Arizona, Jake Bittle...
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California’s $20 billion Tunnel Vision

California has one of the most highly engineered water delivery systems on the planet, and it could soon get a new extension. The Delta Conveyance Tunnel is Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposal for a $20 ...
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UK: Can the water industry be fixed?

“The water industry is in crisis. Can it be fixed?”, asks the BBC’s Business Editor Simon Jack: Our loos flush and water comes out of our taps. In that sense, the water industry in ...
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EWNA: Water Justice for Africa

The Blue Community EWNA, the Ecumenical Water Network Africa, demands justice as Africa marks week of action against water privatisation. The call for water justice was made by the Coordinator of the ...
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France: Stricter control for bottled water

At the end of January 2024, media reports revealed that manufacturers of natural and spring mineral waters (Mainly Nestlé Waters) were applying prohibited treatments to them (activated carbon filters,...
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US Tribes to be paid for unused water?

Colorado elected leaders this week rallied behind two tribal nations who are willing to forgo future water use in exchange for payment through a new federal conservation fund meant to address drought ...
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Indigenous suffer Amazon Drought

Indigenous communities along the Amazon River are grappling with severe challenges as an unprecedented drought causes water levels to plummet. Unforeseen scarcity is threatening livelihoods and access...
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Cabo Verde: The Power of the Valves

After graduating from IHE Delft MSc in Water Management and Governance, Helen Barbosa turned her thesis into a short film to promote a conversation on uneven water distributions in her country, Cabo V...
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