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Opinion: Public Control Is Not Enough, Public Control Is Not Enough: Why Water Services Must Be Publicly Owned An opinion piece by Roland Brunner on behalf of

Opinion: Public Control Is Not Enough

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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Non-Revenue Water beyond Conferences, Beyond Conferences: An Open Reflection on Non-Revenue Water (NRW) and the Need for Action NetworksOpinion By Roland Brunne

Non-Revenue Water beyond Conferences

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, Water and safety are human rights Safe clean and affordable drinking water is not a commodity a gift or a matter of char

Water and Safety are Human Rights

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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Opinion: Water for Life, not for Profit, Water and Sanitation: Not Commodities to Be Managed but Rights That Sustain Life An Opinion Piece by Roland Brunner Bl

Opinion: Water for Life, not for Profit

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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The Commodification of Blue, Opinion by Roland Brunner BCnet Coordinator Bluewashing Or a real humanitarian effort Or just making money with opportunities With

The Commodification of Blue

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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«Blue Economy»: All but blue!, How the ‘Blue Economy’ is Devouring the Ocean it Claims to Save Projects like the Great Nicobar mega-development must be s

«Blue Economy»: All but blue!

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 Needs Effective Water Action, Bangladesh Opinion: Drinking water management: Crisis inequality need for effective action The demand for safe drinkin

Bangladesh Needs Effective Water Action

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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Maude Barlow: Op-Ed on EVs

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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Just Water Partnerships Framing note on concept and principles

Just Water Partnerships?

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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