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Redes del Agua conference in Mexico

Today, Redes del Agua holds a meeting with legislators and in presence of Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation @SRWatSan to discuss the importance o...
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Argentina: Patagonian lakes disappearing

Drought and mismanagement have turned Lake Colhué Huapí, once the size of New York City, in Argentina’s southern Patagonia region into a virtual dustbowl. Now the race is on to save its sister l...
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Jaime Morell appointed to APE

Jaime Morell is the Secretary General of the Blue Community AEOPAS, the Spanish Association of Public Water Supply and Sanitation Operators and the hub of the Blue Community in Spain. Today, at the Ge...
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Kuwait in support of right to water

Pedro Arrojo Agudo, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, reports from yesterday’s UN side event titled ‘Towards enhancing access to clean water ...
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Africa: Access to Clean Water for All

28/06/2024

Ensuring Access to Clean Water for All: Challenges and Solution. Online conference with Mohammed B. Abubakar (keynote speaker Nigeria), Dinesh Suna (guest speaker, WCC Switzerland), Rev. Kolade Fadahu...
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Paris bans plastic bottles for runs

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

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!

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

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!

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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