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.
WaterBusiness
Mexico: The struggle with Coca-Cola
The famous red and white logo can be seen on almost every street. It is painted on the front of mom-and-pop stores. It is on the side of delivery vans and 18-wheeler trucks. It even appears stamped on...
Mexico: Pay for your water!
From this year, local authorities in Mexico will have to charge their residents a monthly fee for drinking water services. According to Rocío Rebollo Mendoza, president of the Finance and Public Credi...
Desalination: Big Money to make
The worse the water crisis, the better for all those trying to make money with it. Desalination is part of this, as it does not solve the problem by going to its roots (water pollution etc.), but offe...
GWSP 2024 Annual Report published
The money-driven World Bank, which sees the water crisis mainly as a problem of financing and calls for private investments, privatisation and so-called ‘Public-Private Partnerships’, has ...
Corruption in Hydro, Dams in India
This annual overview focusses on important reports highlighting the corruption issues related to the hydro and dam projects in India in 2024. The electoral bond case has revealed the deep nexus among ...
World Bank: All about money
“Funding a Water-Secure Future. Global Public Spending in the Water Sector”. The World Bank once again makes clear, why it is called a bank. Because it’s all about money, not human r...
Mexico: Stop the Plundering of Water
Mexico’s National Water Plan excludes the Libres Oriental Basin. Peasants demand a solution to the plundering of water by agro-industry. The Movement in Defence of Water in the Libres Oriental B...
Foreign companies plunder UK’s water
Foreign multinational companies are extracting billions of litres of water from British aquifers to sell as bottled water, the Guardian can reveal. Coca-Cola extracts the largest amount of freshwater ...
AI knows: Water as Commodity
What does artificial intelligence (AI) say? Part 2: Problematic Aspects of Water Financialisation Water financialisation refers to the process by which water is treated as a financial asset, leading t...
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