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Here on our website and on our Blue News social media channels (see down “Follow”), we report on the activities of Blue Communities from all around the world. Blue Communities are warmly i...

Water and women – a gender issue

Two articles published in Kenya’s Nation in the context of the ongoing COP29 deal with the effects of water scarcity from a gender perspective: Scientists warn women could spend 30 per cent more...

COP29: Not a drop of hope

Little seems to be expected from the COP29 meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan. Hosted by a nation that openly promotes oil and gas, with important state leaders not attending (and some even actively campaign...

Arizona’s nuisance with Saudi farms

Arizona’s Attorney General Kris Mayes says she may sue foreign-owned farms under Arizona’s “nuisance law” in Arizona. These farms, particularly those operated by Fondomonte Ari...

Heat is driving western U.S. droughts

Higher temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change made an ordinary drought into an exceptional drought that parched the American West from 2020-2022, according to a new study by UCLA, NOAA an...

Colombia: Access to drinking water

Manuel Rodriguez from the Canadian Université Laval did a research work with vulnerable and remote communities in Colombia. In a Raconte-moi un terrain article produced by the World Regions Cities Net...

Blue Community Zurich launches Blue Gastro

The network of Blue Communities in the Swiss Canton of Zurich launches Blue Gastro – with DRINK & DONATE and ‘ZH2O züriwasser’. The organisation Viva con Agua becomes a Blue Comm...

Canada: On the search for asbestos

As the French language service of Radio Canada reports, “water and children are under the microscope of researchers in Val-des-Sources” for Asbestos. From the report by Thomas Deshaies (tr...

Peru: Water crisis in Piura

The Piura region in northern Peru is facing a historic water crisis, with only 14 million cubic meters of water in the Poechos dam, a volume that only covers consumption for one month. The situation h...