WaterRights

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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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US: Tribal nations’ water rights settled

Katie Hobbs, governor of Arizona, signed two tribal settlements this week, ending decades of conflict and litigation that impacted tribes, cities, farmers, companies and citizens for 50 years. Governo...
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Water is Life, Water is Food

31 October 2023, María Teresa Infante Caffi, Chilean judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, held the FAO LAW LECTURE 2023 at the University of Chile. She is a diplomat and previou...
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Australia: River Murray status listing

South Australians along the River Murray have spoken up about a possible critically endangered listing. A Ngarrindjeri elder in the state’s south says the whole river system needs the listing to...
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US: San Joaquin Valley’s Kern River

Residents, boaters, anglers and river lovers had their first say on the overall relicensing applicaiton for Southern California Edison’s power plant above Kernville and they uniformly demanded more wa...
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Learning English by the water

Not new, but still a great tool: the BBC’s “Water – International Law”. Who owns water, why is access to it so unfair, and what can be done to stop it running out? Discover how...
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Bechtel named for fracked gas pipeline

Peace Brigades International PBI Canada report that Bechtel, the U.S. Virginia-based engineering transnational corporation, defeated by Indigenous resistance in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in the historic Wa...
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Water for money? Social pricing

In the French magazin Politiques & management public 2024/2 (N° 41), Marie Tsanga Tabi* published an article titled «La tarification sociale de l’eau au regard des droits humains : vers une straté...
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Management paradigm ‘value of water’?

What values are behind decisions about water? Insights from a global survey with water professionals. A growing number of water-related organisations endorse ‘valuing water’ as a new water management ...
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