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Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty in Cairo with the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to water and sanitation, Pedro Arrojo-Agudo.

Egypt: Progress on Water & Sanitation

UN expert encourages Egypt to continue its advancements towards the realisation of the right to water and sanitation. Egypt has made important steps towards realising the right to clean water and sani...
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Montague Blue School Makes Headlines

The Montague Public School in Smith Falls, Ontario, is the first school to earn a Blue Community School certificate for water advocacy. The school makes it into the media. See the Lanark’s lanar...
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Boy in Senegal, taking water from a tap, with a big smile.

Senegal: Close to Water for All

Drinking water: Senegal close to universal access. With the aim of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Senegal is making remarkable progress in providing access to drinking water. With...
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The Wyna river in the canton of Lucerne: High concentrations of deltamethrin were recently measured.

Switzerland: Violating Water Protection Law

Switzerland: Federal Office of Justice sees violation of water protection law.  The Swiss Federal Office for the Environment prioritizes agricultural policy arguments over scientific ones when setting...
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The Myth of Coming Water Wars

Water Nationalism, Climate Anxiety, and the Myth of the Coming Water Wars. Will future wars be fought over water? Global policymakers, politicians and the media promote a sense of catastrophism about ...
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Update: Jordan joins Water Convention

We have updated our page on the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation – Status in National Constitutions:  Jordan joins the UN Water Convention as water scarcity and climate pressures intensify. ...
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‘We prepare for the wrong disasters’

‘We prepare for the wrong disasters’: Earth’s fight against encroaching saltwater.  From The Gambia to the US, sea salt is increasingly seeping into the freshwaters people need for ...
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Just Water Futures – Video Lexicon

From “Blended Finance” to “Water Purchase Agreements”, the website of Just Water Futures presents short videos to explain key terms of water justice – presented by water ...
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Not a Polit­ical Tool, but a Human Right. 

Water is not a polit­ical tool, but a human right.  Com­munit­ies exper­i­en­cing out­ages are not con­cerned with polit­ical argu­ments.  By David Mahlobo, Deputy Min­is­ter of Water and San­it­a­tio...
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