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India: Mega Plan Meets Mega Protests

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Why a mega river-linking plan has sparked massive protests in India. Thousands of villagers in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh are protesting against a multi-million-dollar river-linking pr...
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India

Limitations and Barriers to Desalination

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Why don’t we desalinate seawater for unlimited drinking water? An expert explains what you’re not thinking about. In his recent interview with ‘The Wild Project’, chemist Aytha...
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Desalination

Objection to Housing Plans in England

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Witney: objection raised to plans for 370 homes by A40. Plans to build 370 homes near the A40 outside Witney (on the River Windrush in the county of Oxfordshire, England) have received an objection b...
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Malta: Call for Better Water Management

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Malta’s ADPD calls for better water management. Green party calls for more action from authorities. The greens have called on authorities to better manage the country’s water supplies, blaming ...
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Malta

Universal Access to WASH accross Africa

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Uganda: Kiné-Fatim Diop calls for urgent action to ensure universal access to water and sanitation. Speaking at a panel discussion in Kampala, Uganda, the Head of Advocacy for the Pan-African WaterAid...
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Warming Groundwater Affects Millions

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Warming Groundwater Affects Millions – Not Only Humans. While mostly hidden, groundwater is of central importance to surface ecosystems and human society. Christian Griebler, researcher at the Univer...
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Chile: Blessed and Cursed with Lithium

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How one community in Chile is blessed and cursed with lithium. Chile is the world’s second-largest producer of lithium and has the largest known reserves of the mineral, according to the U.S. G...
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Chile

‘Historic Pact’ for Healdsburg’s Water

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‘Historic Pact’ Signed Regarding Healdsburg’s Water Source. We’ve all been hearing some pretty scary things over the past few weeks about important land-stewardship projects across California losing ...
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Israel to Produce Mineral Soda

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While Palestinians are denied their human right to water and infrastructure for water and sanitation is destroyed by Israeli forces: Israel’s first locally produced mineral soda. This launch marks th...
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India: Sanitation Workers Die In Tank

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2 sanitation workers die cleaning sewage tank in Delhi’s Narela. A third worker, Anil Kumar, who was outside, entered the tank to check on them and also collapsed. Two sanitation workers died and ano...
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India Sanitation

Saving what is left of Himalayan rivers

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Saving what is left of Himalayan rivers. Not all mountain rivers need to be monetised, saving them will save us from climate breakdown. Kunda Dixit, former editor and publisher of Nepali Times, revie...
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Kashmir Faces a Water Crisis

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Famed for Himalayan peaks and pristine lakes, Kashmir faces a water crisis amid dry weather. For days, people in the Himalayan region of Kashmir watched in agony as a famed ancient spring ran dry ami...
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Waterborne Infection in Sudan’s White Nile

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Over 800 people hospitalised and dozens are dead from waterborne infection in Sudan’s White Nile state. Dozens of people have died, and over 800 are being treated for symptoms of acute watery diarrho...
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Cholera Sudan

WANA’s Unresolved Water Disputes

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From the Tigris and Euphrates to the Nile: WANA’s unresolved water disputes. Decades of agreements and water-sharing deals have often exacerbated tensions rather than resolving them. The West Asia an...
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WaterCrisis

Colombia: Uncertainty for the Wayuu People

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Droughts, floods and economic uncertainty: Portraits of the Wayuu people in northern Colombia. Climate change is rapidly altering the way of life of the Indigenous Wayuu people, a semi-nomadic Indige...
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Farewell to Amsterdam’s Waternet

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Farewell to the Waternet, Amsterdam is dismantling it: will water remain public or end up private? Amsterdam has always cleaned and supplied drinking water to households and businesses independently. ...
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US States Cement PFAS Protection

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States move to cement PFAS protections amid fears of federal rollbacks. Concerns are growing about the fate of a Biden-era rule to limit toxic PFAS chemicals in drinking water, with some states movin...
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Cholera Outbreak in Ghana and Sudan

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Ghana is facing a growing cholera outbreak, with thousands infected and dozens of lives lost. The bacterial disease initially emerged in the Greater Accra Region, but has now impacted the Central, Wes...
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Veolia Settles Flint Water Lawsuits

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Engineering company settles Flint water lawsuits for $53M but denies any blame for lead crisis. An engineering company said Friday it has agreed to pay $53 million to settle all remaining lawsuits th...
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Fracking Causes Water Shortages

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‘Really fed up’: B.C. ranchers say fracking-induced earthquakes hurt cattle. Fifteen recent earthquakes in five days, linked to fracking, are having serious implications for ranchers — including lives...
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Canada

Oxygen Standards for Delaware River

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Tougher oxygen standards for key stretch of Delaware River finally? Pending agreement would raise oxygen levels, helping endangered Atlantic sturgeon and other species. The U.S. government may soon b...
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Logging Endangers Water Supply

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If a tree falls in a private forest … In the drought-stricken Kootenays, residents of Wynndel, Canada’s westernmost province of British Columbia, worry about the impact of unchecked logging on t...
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Huge Victory for Algonquin First Nation

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The Council of Canadians reports: An Algonquin First Nation saw a huge victory in their fight against the Chalk River nuclear waste dump, dubbed Near Surface Disposal Facility (NSDF). On Feb.19th, th...
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Canada

Mauritius: Drought & Water Shortage

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Drought threatens Mauritius with water shortage. Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, about 2,000 kilometres (1,100 nautical miles) off the southe...
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