Financialisation

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The Water Crisis: Designed Scarcity

Designed scarcity: Why carrying your own water bottle is now a political act.  Right to safe water access is eroding with aggressive commodification of the resource for capital-intensive consumer sec...
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Financing for Clean Air? Fools Day Talk

What does financing for clean air resilience look like beyond COP30?  As severe clean air insecurities affect over 3.2 billion people, researchers point to localized private climate finance as a criti...
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Financialising a Desalination Plant

Just Water Futures is pleased to present a webinar on Financialising a Desalination Plant: Lessons from California. 📆January 30, 2026 ⏰14:00-15:00 CEST. Registration here Michael Pryke, Emertius Prof...
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BLUE TALK with David McDonald

The BLUE TALK with Blue Community Ambassador David McDonald, Professor of Global Development Studies at Queen’s University, Canada, and Director of the Municipal Services Project, a global research ne...
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Water Futures Market Or Future of Water?

From the global Blue Community World Council of Churches (WCC): Seven Weeks for Water 2025, week 4: Is the “Water Futures Market” the Future of Water? The fourth reflection of the S...
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Spain: Call Against Water Privatisation

The dangers of speculation in water: ‘It is not considered a right, but a market product’. Organisations and experts have warned Spain’s Congress of Deputies that water privatisation...
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Spain: Webinar on Water Economy

From the Spanish Blue Community aeopas, Asociación Española de Operadores Públicos de Abastecimiento y Saneamiento (Spanish Association of Public Water Supply and Sanitation Operators): RedAguaPublica...
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China: Water Resource Fees Tax Reform

China expands pilot water resource fees into a tax reform. In an effort to provide greater water security to its people and economy, China created the Water Law in 1988 to better manage water resourc...
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Mexico: Rural Water Risks

Rural communities in Guanajuato at risk of running out of water – why? Inhabitants of Mexico’s Pénjamo and nearby municipalities manage their own wells, but debts and lack of resources thr...
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