Join in for World Water Day 2025
World Water Day, held on 22 March every year, is an annual United Nations Observance
focusing on the importance of freshwater.
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Blue Community for Peace & Water Justice
On 10 December, several organizations organized an event in Florence under the title “Blue Communities – towards Peace and Water Justice” (see Blue News here). And it was a success! Here the post on I...
Coordination Blue Community Europe
On 26 November, representatives from Blue Communities in Europe met online. The main purpose of the meeting was to exchange information and experience, and to strengthen and widen the Blue Community n...
Maude Barlow on the Rights of Nature
Blue Community co-founder Maude Barlow has just written a White Paper on “How the Commodification and Financialization of Nature endanger the Rights of Nature” for the Global Alliance for ...
Spain: ‘It’s not drought – it’s looting’
The Guardian writes about “the Spanish villages where people are forced to buy back their own drinking water”. Spain is increasingly either parched or flooded – and one group is profiting ...
Italy: Towards a Blue Community
On 10 December, several organizations organize an event in Florence under the title “Blue Communities – towards Peace and Water Justice”. The event in the Auditorium Innovation Cente...
December 10, 2024
Canada: When Trump comes for our water…
“When Trump comes calling for our water, Canada must be ready”. That’s the title of an article by Maude Barlow, author, activist, and co-founder of the Blue Community, in the Toronto...
Canada: New Water Agency off the ground
Announced a number of times, the Canada Water Agency (CWA) is finally off the ground. Probably the country visit of Pedro Arrojo Agudo, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation...
York University is now a Blue Community
York University in Toronto, Canada, is now formally recognized as a Blue Community. Maude Barlow and Council of Canadians chairperson John Cartwright were at a special event on October 8, 2024, where ...
Make a splash! Blue Community Schools
The Blue Community began when Maude Barlow, founder and former chair of the Council of Canadians, launched the project in defence of Canadian communities threatened with water grabs. From there it spr...
