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Paris bans plastic bottles for runs

26/09/2024

The deputy mayor of the Blue Community / Blue City of Paris in charge of sport, Pierre Rabadan, announced on Monday that the use of single-use plastic bottles would be banned at all running events in ...
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Spanish BC publishs drought monitor

20/06/2024

aeopas, the Spanish Association of Public Water Supply and Sanitation Operators and hub for the Blue Community in Spain (see here), published its quarterly report on the drought situation in Spain. Th...
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Australia: Freshwater on the Borderline (until 6 Dec.)

02/12/2024

Blue Community Ambassador Erin O’Donnell will be a speaker to the Australian Freshwater Sciences Society’s annual conference from Monday 2nd December to Friday 6th December 2024. The meeti...
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RadioChico: appreciate our water!

19/06/2024

Appreciate our water, the source of all life. A short video message from the Réseau Ecole RadioChico in Mali. https://blue-community.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/WhatsApp-Video-2024-06-19-at-20.09.0...
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Near Hamburg: Poison in groundwater

26/09/2024

They are toxic and carcinogenic – and have been found in high concentrations in the groundwater beneath the town of Pinneberg on the outskirts of the German city of Hamburg, as the daily TagesZe...
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Youth Events in Neustrelitz

05/11/2024

The German Blue Community / Blue City Neustrelitz is organizing youth events about water. On Friday, 8 September, the Neustrelitz Youth Council and Strelitzer Kulturquartier invited to a lecture on ra...
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Listen up! Drop that bottle!

26/09/2024

Think bottled water is safer than tap water? Think again. Drinking bottled water is much worse for you than tap, scientists find. When it comes to getting your daily fill of water, the safest option i...
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OTTAWA WATER DROP DELIVERY

21/06/2024

The Council of Canadians invites to the Ottawa Water Drop Delivery on 21 June, Indigenous Peoples Day: With the dedication of hundreds of teachers and Council supporters we’ve collected 700 “water dro...
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New complaints against Nestlé

25/09/2024

foodwatch France is fighting back by filing two new complaints on Wednesday 25 September, this time as a civil party. While the Epinal Public Prosecutor’s Office – to which the foodwatch c...
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Blue Community in Africa Launch

17/06/2024

The launch of the Blue Community Africa on 11 June (see our Blue News from 13 June) had an important media coverage. Dr. Alexander Ampaabeng, Ghana’s Deputy Finance Minister, outlined at the off...
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Canada’s First Nations Call for Clean Water

25/09/2024

Dozens of First Nations communities across Canada live their day-to-day lives with concerns about the quality of their drinking water, never-ending boil water advisories, and water-related illnesses. ...
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Blue School Büdingen (D)

17/06/2024

Wolfgang-Ernst-Gymnasium in Büdingen, Germany, was the world’s first Blue School. This year, the school organised a wide range of events for World Water Day, involving hundreds of students and t...
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Global solidarities against water grabbing

25/09/2024

Now published! Global solidarities against water grabbing. Without water, we have nothing. By Caitlin Schroering. Conflicts over water are human-caused events with socio-political and economic causes....
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Swiss Blue Universities invite

17/06/2024

At today’s video encounter, the Swiss Blue Universities discussed and decided among other topics to send an invite to all their partner universities in the global south, inviting them to join th...
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Water Watchers call for a stop to salt

25/09/2024

Rain finally returned to southern Ontario this week, but in a few short months, rain will turn to snow and millions of tonnes of salt will start being spread across the province. The Canadian Blue Com...
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New publication by Eawag

15/06/2024

The Swiss Blue Community Eawag, the Aquatic Research Institute, is announcing a new publication: «Biodiversity between Water and Land. Excursions to bodies of water, moors and floodplains in Switzerla...
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UK: March for Water has to change date

25/09/2024

Due to a recently announced event scheduled to take place in Central London on 26th Oct, & for public safety, the organizers have made the extremely difficult decision to move the march to 3rd of ...
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Cholera outbreak in Nigeria

15/06/2024

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has alerted on increasing cholera cases nationwide, with 30 deaths, 1,141 suspected cases, and 65 confirmed cases reported, as The Vanguard...
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New face at Eawag’s Sandec

25/09/2024

There is a new Face at the Swiss Blue Community Eawag, the Aquatic Research Institute, and its Department of Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development Sandec: Justine De Groote, MSC student in...
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Webinar on supported water self-supply

18/06/2024

For 18 June, the Swiss Blue Community Skat Foundation co-invites to the fourth webinar of the Rural Water Supply Network RWSN with over 16,000 members in over 170 countries working to get safe water t...
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Cracks and sinkholes across Iran

25/09/2024

Subsidence caused by groundwater depletion beginning to affect key infrastructure such as airports and roads. Groundwater depletion in Iran is reaching crisis point, according to a study published thi...
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New factsheet from EWNA

14/06/2024

The Ecumenical Water Network Africa (EWNA) published a new factsheet. The focus of this issue: Basic facts on the water situation in Ekiti State in Nigeria, and Freetown in Sierra Leone: Guma Dam Emba...
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Harvesting rainwater to drink?

24/09/2024

More than half of the Mexican population lacks access to clean drinking water. Now, a team from the University of Toronto is looking to find solutions and help bring relief to some of the country’s mo...
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Blue Community launch in Africa

13/06/2024

The Ecumenical Water Network Africa EWNA is elated to be part of the official launch of the Blue Communities Africa initiative in Ghana on Tuesday 11 June 2024. This hybrid event (in presence and onli...
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