The Spanish Blue Community Asociación Española de Operadores Públicos de Abastecimiento y Saneamiento (AEOPAS, Association of Public Water Supply and Sanitation Operators) promotes public and particip... Read More
May 16, 2024: Under the Surface, coordinated by Arena for Journalism in Europe and initiated by Spanish digital media outlet Datadista, delved into official data from European countries to provide a c... Read More
Alberto Acosta and Enrique Viale, two of the most important thinkers and activists for the Rights of Nature in Latin America, have come together to write a wonderful and necessary book: “Nature ... Read More
May 16, 2024: An interview with Rev Dr Mauro de Souza, second vice president of the Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil, on the grave needs amid the flood disaster in Brazil—and ho... Read More
The 2024 edition of the public water service Eau de Paris Consumer Barometer confirms the changes in habits that have taken place in recent years. More and more inhabitants of the Blue Community / Blu... Read More
On Mother’s Day, 11 May 2024, just a day after receiving the Blue Community Certificate, the Réseau Ecole RadioChico network in Mali celebrated Plant Day with a variety of activities to show the... Read More
The future of water in a era of climate change will be among the topics presented during an eight-day free symposium at Red Deer Polytechnic.
RDP, Council of Canadians and Red Deer Naturalists have jo... Read More
Today, the network Réseau Ecole RadioChico in Mali and neighbouring countries in French speaking Africa received their certificate as a Blue Community in an online event. See here: https://blue-commun... Read More
Across Africa, the incidences of violence over water resources increased by around 34 per cent during 2022-23: there were at least 71 such incidents recorded in 2023 compared to 53 in 2022. In 2023, A... Read More
By May 1, the network Réseau Ecole RadioChico RERC in Mali became a Blue Community, as one of the first three organisations on the African continent. Today, the certificate for the affiliation to the ... Read More
The Blue Community began when Maude Barlow, founder and former chair of the Council of Canadians, launched the project in defence of Canadian communities threatened with water grabs. From there it spr... Read More
The Swiss Water Association (VSA) is THE leading Swiss association for water protection and the development of sustainable, integrated water management. VSA was founded in 1944 and achieves its goals ... Read More
In a new alert, the UN agency for Palestine refugees UNRWA highlighted how Gazans’ shelters have become a target for insects and rodents after more than 11 months of war – echoing deep concerns among ... Read More
SAVE THE DATE: The annual assembly of the Swiss Blue Communities will take place on the afternoon of 12 September in Bern. Representatives of the nearly 50 Swiss Blue Communities are invited. After th... Read More
The Canadian Blue Community (Wellington) Water Watchers sent out a call “Big news for ending bottled water out of California!” “The (US) Forest Service notified BlueTriton Brands in a lett... Read More
More heavy downpours, more hot days and longer periods of drought – these are the consequences of climate change that are increasingly affecting us in Switzerland. The Sponge City project offers... Read More
On 20 September, from 14:30 to 16:00, the Blue Community World Council of Churches’ (WCC) Ecumenical Water Network will host a special dialogue with the UN special rapporteur for Human Right to ... Read More
Paris, the capital of France, became a Blue Community in 2016 after a long struggle to re-municipalise its water services, which were for some time entrusted to a private company. Today, the public co... Read More
Yesterday, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to water and sanitation Pedro Arrojo Agudo, presented his report to the United Nations. The French language service of the UN today provides a summ... Read More
The faculty of Italian Studies and Environmental Humanities at the Blue Community / Blue University Universität St.Gallen (HSG) is pleased to invite you to its Spring 2024 guest lecture:
Rutgerd Boele... Read More
The European Union launched a call for partnerships for better water management at European level, aiming to create a network bringing together different actors within the Member States, whether citie... Read More
Newari, the Nigerian Network of Water Rights Initiatives, became a Blue Community yesterday, May 1st, 2024. In their press release they state: A prominent Nigerian organization, the Network of Water R... Read More
For the first time, part of the ocean has been granted legal personhood. By affording rights to its iconic waves, a Brazilian city is paving a new path to marine protection. Linhares, Brazil, a world-... Read More
The first three African organisations joined the Blue Community network today, on May 1, 2024:💧The Ecumenic Water Network Africa EWNA working from Nigeria.💧The network Réseau Ecole RadioChico in Mali.... Read More
