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France: Fighting against Suez

France’s Eau du Sud Francilien public-private partnership wants to regain public ownership of the region’s drinking water network. Although the consortium seemed to be close to an agreemen...
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Beyond Ideology: Fluoride in Water

There’s been a lot of talk recently about the presence of fluoride in the water supplies of cities across the United States and possible health risks associated with the chemical’s consump...
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India: Armed Forces for Mega Dam

“How can they send paramilitary forces here?” asked Taga Tamuk, as he showed me around the government primary school in Riew village in Arunachal Pradesh’s Siang district. Why were central force...
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Taking back control of water in Berguedà

Aura Vidal Carrasco from Aigua és vida, a platform of social, neighbourhood, environmental and solidarity associations for the good state of water bodies and public water management in Catalonia, Spai...
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Mexico: Debts from unpaid water

Municipal water companies go bankrupt and city councils do nothing. Despite the fact that they receive drinking water services, 42% of the population of the State of Mexico do not pay for them, and th...
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NY: $225 Million For Clean Water

New York’s Governor Kathy Hochul today announced more than $225 million awarded to 165 projects to significantly improve water quality across the state. The grants support projects that will hel...
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Time Of Water: Protect The Amazon

The Time Of Water: An Alliance To Protect The Amazon Rainforest. YURIMAGUAS, Peru – The Sacred Headwaters Alliance brings together thirty Indigenous nations of the upper Amazon in Ecuador and Peru, wh...
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UK: Bonuses instead of Clean-up

The Guardian revealed: Thames Water diverted ‘cash for clean-ups’ to help pay bonuses. UK’s biggest water company assessed risks before cutting back on cost of environmental work, investigation shows....
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World Bank: All about money

“Funding a Water-Secure Future. Global Public Spending in the Water Sector”. The World Bank once again makes clear, why it is called a bank. Because it’s all about money, not human r...
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UK: No chance for clean rivers?

There seems to be no end to what privatised water companies have done to Britain’s rivers and beaches: An important target for cleaning up England’s rivers, lakes and seas cannot be met, one of ...
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China cracked down dam protests

Hundreds of Tibetans protesting against a Chinese dam were rounded up in a harsh crackdown earlier this year, with some beaten and seriously injured, the BBC has learnt from sources and verified foota...
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South Africa: Tongaat’s Water Woes

South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal: It will be another bleak festive season for some residents of oThongathi who still do not have water in their taps – a disruption they have been experiencing ...
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Abel La Calle Marcos – Rest in Peace

Abel La Calle, the Spanish lawyer who fought for water, has died. On 18 December, Abel La Calle Marcos died at his home in Almería at the age of 67, surrounded by his family. A renowned lawyer, he was...
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US Cities: No Running Water

New York City is the water poverty capital of the United States, according to a study citing census data, with 56,900 residents living without access to running water in 2021. In second place was Los ...
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Drinking Water: Senegal’s Challenge

Senegal has set itself an ambitious goal: to achieve universal access to drinking water by 2030, a commitment enshrined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular SDG 6....
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France: Illegal water grab continues

Farmers continue to fill the Sainte-Soline mega-basin despite a court ban, Mediapart reports. According to public data consulted by Mediapart, more than 10,000 cubic metres of water continue to be abs...
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UK’s private waters: “Daylight robbery”

Water from a private company is good business if you are not a customer but a director or shareholder. When the company is fined for breaking the law, customers and taxpayers are asked to pay the fine...
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Stand up for water. Stop Tesla

At 8am on a morning in late November, on the outskirts of Germany’s Berlin-Brandenburg, hundreds of police officers have entered the Grunheide Forest, which has been occupied by activists from t...
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Mexico: Human Right to Water Published

The National Agreement for the Human Right to Water and Sustainability was published in Mexico’s Federal Official Gazette (Diario Oficial de la Federación or DOF) on Dec. 19, 2024. The agreement integ...
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Ontario First Nation declares emergency

Drinking water: A remote First Nation in northwestern Ontario, which has been under a boil water advisory for 19 years, has declared a state of emergency following a recent contamination of its water ...
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Nicaragua: 97% drinking water

According to the government, Nicaragua has achieved about 97 per cent coverage of drinking water. The executive president of the Nicaraguan Water and Sewerage Company (Enacal), Ervin Barreda, told Inf...
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France’s Mayotte struggles to recover

One week on from a devastating cyclone that battered France’s Indian Ocean territory, aid is still only trickling in to the worst-affected areas in Mayotte, where emergency workers are scramblin...
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Displaced without drinking water

Thousands of displaced people living in DR Congo’s Biakato, Babila Babombi Chiefdom, Mambasa territory (Ituri), have been without drinking water for three weeks. The drought in the region is the...
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Inflows into Ganga ramped up

India: As part of the preparation for the upcoming Mahakumbh Mela, the state irrigation department has decided to ramp up inflows into the Ganga to ensure adequate water supply during the festival, wh...
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