WaterRights

BLUE TALK Erin ODonnell

BLUE TALK: Erin O’Donnell

BLUE TALK with Blue Community Ambassador Erin O’Donnell, book author and Associate Professor at Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, Australia. Living rivers and the political rights of ...
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BLUE DIGEST 05-07-2025

Every day the most important news on water and sanitation from around the world, compiled by the Blue Community Network, defending water as a common, public good and a human right. Today: Africa, Bott...
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BLUE DIGEST 27-06-2025

Every day the most important news on water and sanitation from around the world, compiled by the Blue Community Network, defending water as a common, public good and a human right. Today: Canada, Fiji...
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BLUE DIGEST 08-06-2025

The most important news on water and sanitation from around the world, defending water as a common, public good and a human right. A river runs through us Robert Macfarlane asks: Is a r...
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“The River is the Mother of our people”

Through a tribal-wide vote, the Rappahannock Tribe in Virginia has become the first Tribal Nation in the U.S. to adopt a Tribal Constitution that recognizes the constitutional rights of nature. The ne...
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Another River got its Rights

A river in Washington State now has enforceable legal rights. Voters in Everett, a community of about 110,000, enshrined the watershed’s rights to exist, regenerate and flourish into municipal law as ...
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Drowned Land: Women protect Water

A new documentary, “Drowned Land,” explores the Choctaw-led effort to put tribal heritage above profit. Women Are Leading the Effort to Protect Sacred Water: The kwek, the women of my trib...
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France: Former Colonies’ Water Issues

In the former colonies integrated into the French Republic, the access to drinking water is a health and environmental emergency. Claire Hédon, Human Rights Defender, and her deputy Éric Delemar, Def...
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Canada: First Nations shall be heard

Nunavut’s federal representative acted as an advocate for Canada’s First Nations earlier this month, criticizing a lack of consultation over a bill aimed at improving access to clean water. Bill...
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