Public Control Is Not Enough: Why Water Services Must Be Publicly Owned.
An opinion piece by Roland Brunner on behalf of the Blue Community Network.
For decades, governments in the UK and around the...
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Beyond Conferences: An Open Reflection on Non-Revenue Water (NRW) and the Need for Action Networks.
Opinion By Roland Brunner, Blue Community Network.
To the Participants of the Non-Revenue Water Mana...
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Water and safety are human rights.
Safe, clean, and affordable drinking water is not a commodity, a gift, or a matter of charity. It is also not something we should be hugely grateful for. It is a hu...
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Water and Sanitation: Not Commodities to Be Managed, but Rights That Sustain Life.
An Opinion Piece by Roland Brunner, Blue Community Network.
Around the world, discussions about water and sanitatio...
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Opinion by Roland Brunner, BCnet Coordinator.
Bluewashing? A real humanitarian effort? Or just making money with opportunities? With water becoming more and more an issue of crisis, not only the publi...
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How the ‘Blue Economy’ is Devouring the Ocean it Claims to Save.
Projects like the Great Nicobar mega-development must be subjected to genuine, independent environmental scrutiny rather than the perf...
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Bangladesh, Opinion: Drinking water management: Crisis, inequality, need for effective action.
The demand for safe drinking water is a long standing issue in Bangladesh and continues to be one of the ...
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From Blue Community co-founder Maude Barlow:
My op ed on the need to look at the whole process before we declare EVs to be the answer. Please share.
Are electric cars really an environmental success ...
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Old wine in new bottles, or half a step forward in the right direction? Opinion by Roland Brunner.
Today, WaterAid and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) hold two webinar (see here) t...
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