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Petition: Human Right to Water in Canada

Legally Recognize the Human Right to Water in Canada! Drinking water and sanitation are globally recognized human rights, yet they are not legally enshrined or universally accessed in Canada. Sign thi...Read More

Water for all workshop in Accra, Ghana

Dr. Christoph Lüthi, head of the Department Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development SANDEC at the Swiss Blue Community Eawag, the Aquatic Research Institute of ETH, gave one of the Inaugural...Read More

Next Blue Universities international exchange

17/10/2024

Save the date: Next Blue Universities international exchange Thursday, 17 October 2024 10 AM Canada time (Toronto) 11 AM Brazil time (Sao Paulo) 4 PM Swiss/Central European time More on Blue Universit...Read More

Happy World Environment Day !

Save our planet by protecting our water, the source of all life. Keep our planet blue. Make your institution / organisation become a Blue Community. See here how you can TURN BLUE

Berlin: Blue Community Exhibition (until 7 Oct.)

12/09/2024

Are you planning a trip to Berlin? Then don’t miss the traveling exhibition of the Blue Community Berlin. Exciting water projects from Berlin and many facts about “Water in Berlin” w...Read More

Prof. Elias Wolff joins the Blue Team

Elias Wolff, Professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil, joined the Blue Team. The university is a Blue Community and an active participant in the Blue University network. Eli...Read More

Blue Community Paris: Call for action

«Now is the time to act to safeguard the principle of tap water for all.» In an opinion column in the major French daily Le Monde, Dan Lert together with a group of metropolitan and public water autho...Read More

Maude Barlow to be honoured at Brock’s Spring Convocation

When Brock University’s newest graduates gather to mark their accomplishments next month, they’ll be ushered into this new chapter of their lives by the inspiring words of an environmental activist, a...Read More

Who really benefits from public-private partnerships?

The WorldBank and other international bodies mostly controlled by companies, corporations and other money-making enterprises, keep promoting the so called Public Private Partnership PPP or P3 – ...Read More

WCC: Water justice groups stronger after Bali

After the recent suppression of the People’s Water Forum in Bali, Indonesia, water justice groups—among them the World Council of Churches (WCC) Ecumenical Water Network—have emerged stronger than eve...Read More

New publication: Rights and relationality

Rights and relationality: A review of the role of law in the human/water relationship. New publication by Blue Community Ambassador Erin O’Donnell with Cristy Clark and Rachel Killean. Download ...Read More

WATER IS BACK ON CAMPUS!

The Blue Community Network of Water Rights Initiative – NEWARI @WashNetwork from Nigeria writes: After nearly a decade, water supply has been restored at University of Nigeria Enugu campus, than...Read More