RolandBrunner

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Linkedin has blocked our account

Without previous information or warning, Linkedin has blocked the account I used to send updates on water and sanitation headlines from around the globe. Also asking back, Linkedin did not come up wit...
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Blue Community and Social Media

Opinion by Roland Brunner, Blue Community network. The climate crisis is real – and it is first and foremost a water crisis. It would take bold action to look and move forward, to stop the destr...
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Water 2024: Sober or Wishful Thinking?

The World Bank’s Saroj Kumar Jha calls 2024 on the Water Blog “A year of progress for water security”: “As we wrap up 2024, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the milestones ...
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Comment: COP29 and counting…

COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, has ended. Inger Andersen, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), called for “A new push to protect water, our...
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Climate crisis driving authoritarianism?

The website Grist published an excellent article by senior editor L.V. Anderson, entitled “Authoritarianism is on the rise. Is climate change to blame?” with the byline “There’...
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Will private money fix our water?

The world needs to mobilize up to $7 trillion by 2030 for global water infrastructure, if we are to meet our water-related SDG commitments and address decades of underinvestment. That’s what the...
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Games over! A Blue Comment.

On Sunday, the Paris Olympics will be history. How did they go? I’m not really interested in sport (especially not in commercialised events like the Olympics), but I do care about the impact it ...
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Markets, money, and moral. An essay.

or: Why private companies are not interested in solving problems by Roland Brunner Our planet and our civilization seem to be on the verge of collapse, doomed to darkness. Climate and water crises, t...
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Rights or Revenues? The World Water Week

A personal opinion by Roland Brunner. Today, the World Water Week 2024 starts, organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute SIWI, and lasting until 29 August. Thousands of participants (15...
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