A group of medical scientists has called for investing in making safe piped water available to all to protect the well-being of people and the planet from the health and environmental problems caused ... Read More
July 28, 2024, marks the 14th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of Resolution 64/292, recognizing access to clean drinking water and sanitation as a fundamental human right... Read More
The plenary session of the Congress of the Republic of Peru, on 10 October, approved a bill (4553/2022-CR), which was presented on 23 March 2023, more than a year ago. The proposal establishes compens... Read More
Peru’s president Dina Boluarte denied that the government was seeking to privatise the drinking water service and said that her administration’s initiatives were aimed at providing a quali... Read More
The question of whether Canada has a legal obligation to provide safe drinking water to First Nations people (see Blue News here) is now in the hands of a judge who once claimed to have spent part of... Read More
At the Paris Media Centre, the Blue Community / Blue City Paris held a press conference for the opening of the Olympic Games: «Ici, je bois l’eau de Paris.» (Here I drink the water of Paris). Da... Read More
Ahead of a six-month scheduled stoppage in supply from the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), which provides water to approximately one fifth of South Africa’s population, GroundUp’s Sean Christi... Read More
Today, on 28 July 2024, it will be 14 years since the 108th plenary session of the United Nations General Assembly adopted UN resolution 64/292 on the human right to water and sanitation! This was the... Read More
Two of England’s biggest water firms dumped raw sewage into rivers across the country in suspected illegal breaches of their permits, despite being given the highest possible rating by the regulator f... Read More
The German city of Büdingen is a Blue Community, and the Wolfgang-Ernst-Gymnasium (high-school) in Büdingen was even the first Blue School worldwide! Pupils from five classes at the Wolfgang-Ernst-Gym... Read More
In 2023, Alabama settled a civil rights complaint alleging that the state was discriminating against Black residents by not providing adequate sewage treatment in a poor, rural county. A year later, s... Read More
Luis Babiano, Executive Director of the Spanish Blue Community Asociación Española de Operadores Públicos de Abastecimiento y Saneamiento (AEOPAS, Spanish Association of Public Water Supply and Sanita... Read More
In Dar es Salaam, the biggest city of Tanzania, over 90 per cent of residents depend on on-site sanitation systems like septic tanks and pit latrines, many of which are poorly maintained. Waterborne d... Read More
Teaching children how to manage life is also our mission. RadioChico Mali’s network of schools in 6 West African countries operates day and night. Water, the source of life, essential for the su... Read More
Bolivia has faced significant challenges in managing its water resources, with social unrest and conflict adding to the existing difficulties. The so-called water wars in 2000 and 2006 in Cochabamba a... Read More
On behalf of the German Blue Community coordination, Anoosh Werner calls for a European meeting of Blue Communities. She writes: “We want to gather all European Blue Communities and reactivate o... Read More
The Middle East and North Africa are sensing the effects of an “increasingly unpredictable” global water cycle as the region’s rivers and soil dry up, weather forecasters have warned... Read More
Nine of the wells drilled by Nestlé Waters in the Vittel region (Vosges) were outside the permit parameters for water extraction. This situation has been denounced by several associations and confirme... Read More
In the framework of the Themed Week on Water Between Extremes (see Blue News here), Blue Community Ambassadors Madelaine Moore and Andrea Muehlebach organized a three-days symposium on Water Futures d... Read More
Alert by the Blue Community Water Watchers: Today is North American Oil Spill Day and the 14th anniversary of Enbridge’s oil pipeline spill in the Great Lakes Watershed. Today, we raise our voic... Read More
In the South African city of Johannesburg, councillors are starting to make disaster plans for Day Zero in areas that have been without water for the past week. These are plans by civil society to ass... Read More
The Nigerian Blue Community Network of Water Rights Initiative – NEWARI @WashNetwork celebrates its #ThrowbackThursday : We can’t get enough of the 2023 recognitions of our tireless effort... Read More
Climate change is only one factor in the global water crisis. The main causes are industrial agriculture, increasing urbanisation, inequitable distribution and pollution, according to a new report by ... Read More
Join us for a ‘lunch & learn’ with Water Watchers and Water Activist and Blue Community Co-Founder Maude Barlow. We will celebrate Water Watchers becoming the newest Blue Community and learn how t... Read More
