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Official Launch: Blue Community Africa

11/06/2024

We are happy to invite you to the launch of the Blue Communities Africa initiative, a pivotal step aimed at contributing to the promotion of water and environmental rights and justice in Africa. Event...Read More

A welcome from the Council of Canadians

The Council of Canadians is welcoming the first Blue Communities on the African Continent. They state: The global network of Blue Communities is growing day by day. Last month, three African organizat...Read More

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

New Blue Community Ambassador: Rutgerd Boelens

«Across the world, new water justice movements have proliferated that creatively enliven rivers in all their senses. As multi-scalar coalitions they deploy alternative river–society proposals and prac...Read More

Water for Profit? Repression in Indonesia

The triennial World Water Forum is meeting this week in Bali.  This event is organised by the World Water Council, which is led by private, for-profit corporations, traditionally supported by the Worl...Read More

Blue Community NEWARI in Bali at World Water Forum

The Blue Community Network of Water Rights Initiative – NEWARI @WashNetwork has been selected to speak @ 2 sessions – T4CC1 and T4E2 – @ the ongoing #10thWorldWaterForum in Bali. NEW...Read More

Brazilian Blue University creates Water Committee

On Wednesday, May 22, the Pro-Rector of Educational Development at Universidade Azul Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Prof. Dr. Ericson Falabretti, established a Water Committee, to impleme...Read More

Peoples Water Forum in Bali attacked

From Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, UN Special Rapporteur on Water and Sanitation @SRWatSan :Dear Water Defenders, dear friends. I arrived in Bali (Indonesia) yesterday afternoon to participate in the People’s W...Read More

Three major Swiss water stakeholders become BC

May 15, 2024: The Swiss Water Association (VSA), Eawag and Hunziker Betatech AG HBT recognise water as a public good and a human right, commit themselves to tap water and become a Blue Community. At t...Read More

‘Under the Surface’: Europe’s groundwater crisis

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

Brazil: Churches are often the first responders

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

Plant Day 2024 at RadioChico Mali

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

Encouraging and empowering ceremony

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