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Algae-based Solution for Wastewater

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Indian researchers have proposed a theory for a sustainable wastewater treatment method using a microalgae-bacterial consortium to remove toxic ammonium. The method, proposed in a recently published s...Read More

Chinese Mining in World Heritage Site

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Nestled in eastern Congo’s Ituri province, the Chinese-run gold mine is rapidly encroaching on an area that many say it shouldn’t be operating in at all – the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, an endanger...Read More

Chile: Anglo American faces charges

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Chile’s environmental watchdog has laid three charges against Anglo American (LON: AAL) for environmental breaches at its El Soldado copper mine, located 125 km north of the capital Santiago. The Supe...Read More

World Water Day 2025: Glacier Preservation

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In 2025, the theme of World Water Day is ‘Glacier Preservation’. On the 22nd of March, the focus will be on the critical role glaciers play in global water systems and the urgent need to address their...Read More

UK water company tricking the books

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That’s what you get when you give a pubic good into private hands: One of England’s top-rated water companies is using an accounting trick to artificially inflate its balance sheet by more...Read More

Montmartre: the hilltop by the water

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The Blue Community / Blue City of Paris and its public water utility Eau de Paris offer a guided tour of ‘Montmartre: the hilltop by the water’: To celebrate the end of 2024, we’re l...Read More

“The River is the Mother of our people”

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Through a tribal-wide vote, the Rappahannock Tribe in Virginia has become the first Tribal Nation in the U.S. to adopt a Tribal Constitution that recognizes the constitutional rights of nature. The ne...Read More

Mexico: Personhood for Cenotes

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Indigenous Mayans want their sacred cenotes to have personhood status. A huge poplar tree stands proud in Maribel Ek’s courtyard, adorned with a sign that reads: “Florece desde adentro” (“It blooms fr...Read More

Women’s Participation and Disease Prevention

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“Women’s Political Participation and Disease Prevention: Evidence from Access to Water and Sanitation Services”, a new research paper published in Social Science & Medicine is entitled...Read More

Ecuador: Long Waiting for Water

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In Zamora Chinchipe, located in Ecuador’s South-East, hundreds of families still depend on rivers and springs for their survival. The lack of drinking water coverage, which in some areas barely ...Read More

India: Is the River Hindon Dead?

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How has Hindon river pollution triggered a public healthcare crisis? Western Uttar Pradesh, India’s sugar bowl, has been reduced to a drain, the platform DownToEarth documents: Once a lifeline f...Read More

The Global Threat of Drying Lands

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Three-quarters of Earth’s land became permanently drier in last three decades, the UN documents. Five billion people could be affected by 2100. Even as dramatic water-related disasters such as floods ...Read More

India cuts Power and Water for Refugees

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“Over 400 Rohingya Families in Jammu & Kashmir Face Power and Water Supply Cuts”, Shia Waves publishes based on agency news: Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir have ordered the...Read More

Zimbabwe: Water vending booms

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The effects of climate change are becoming more severe as witnessed by the increasingly frequent and intense heatwaves. Zimbabwe’s Breitbridge district yesterday experienced temperatures as high...Read More

Italy: Water Crisis in Basilicata

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The water crisis in the Basilicata region of southern Italy has been going on for months. In a longer article for the Italian daily La Repubblica, Anna Martino writes about recent decisions and gives ...Read More

Forever Chemical in Mineral Waters

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Pesticide Action Network Europe has analysed 19 mineral water samples from seven European countries. The results show that more than half of the samples contain traces of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a...Read More

The Weaponization of Water Resources

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The United States Institute of Peace released a study by Cassandra Schneider, Senior Program Officer Climate, Environment & Conflict, entitled “Protecting Water Infrastructure During WarR...Read More

Brazil: Justice Voids Belo Sun Concession

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In a major victory for the communities of the Amazon’s Volta Grande do Xingu, a judge’s ruling annulled the Canadian mining company’s contract with Brazil’s Land Reform Institute, Amazon Watch reports...Read More

Peru: Gaps in Water and Sanitation

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Closing the gaps in access to drinking water and sanitation networks is one of the main tasks of Peru’s National Executive. In the Southern Macro Region, 169 thousand people do not have access t...Read More

Nigeria: Stench of open defecation

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“Many Nigerians still defecate in the open even in urban areas. Stench of open defecation permeates local communities nationwide”, the Nigerian Tribune writes: With over 48 million people ...Read More

Kenya: Non-Revenue Water crisis

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Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Water, Sanitation, and Irrigation, Eric Mugaa, has called for urgent measures to address the high levels of Non-Revenue Water (NRW) across the country. Speakin...Read More

WHO DG on WASH Priorities

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Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation WHO, addressed to the dialogue session “From the Bandung Spirit Water Summit to the UN 2026 Water Conference̶...Read More

India: Public Washrooms for Women

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The Jaipur bench of the Rajasthan High Court has suo motu taken cognizance of the inadequate and unhygienic public washrooms for women, emphasizing the serious health risks associated with the issue. ...Read More

UK: ‘disastrous vulture auction’

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As the Morning Star and other British media report, embattled Thames Water has received a “disastrous vulture auction” buyout bid from investment group Covalis Capital that could see the utility giant...Read More