The privatisation of global water services means billion-dollar profits for corporations and pollution, disconnection and soaring prices for consumers
… The privatisation of water Jon Luoma | 1st March 2004 News Water Pollution Corporations Privatisation Bottled Water Human Rights Violations Fresh Water …
During the past decade or so, international trade agreements have been dramatically expanded to encompass affairs that had always previously been strictly matters of domestic concern.
… A thirst for control: water privatisation The Ecologist | 1st March 2004 News Water Privatisation Water Bills Public Health Privatisation …
… Should our drinking water be fluoridated? Dr Paul Connett … Comment MRC Fluoridation Dentist Tooth Decay Water F Flouridation Health blogs&comments.jpg … vs. Professor Liz Kay Dear Professor Kay, Water fluoridation is a most peculiar …
How the Colombian capital Bogotá defied the World Bank and the multinationals, refused to privatise and turned its water services into the best in the country
… Bogotá's fight for public water Maria Teresa Ronderos | 1st March 2004 … News Colombia Bogotá World Bank Privatise Water Se Privatisation Society How the … refused to privatise and turned its water services into the best in the country …
Unlike large dams, now widely acknowledged to be unsustainable and ineffective, micro-hydro involves the use of small mills and dams to provide clean energy and an alternative source of income for rural communities.
… Renewable energy: Micro-hydro, Biomass, Solar Water Panel Jeremy Smith | 1st June 2004 News Solar Water Panels Renewable Energy Biomass … Fursdons dug a 460 metre channel to transport water from a stream on their land to the new …
I’m sitting opposite the large Coca-Cola bottling plant next to the village of Plachimada in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Plachimada is a farming village of about 800 families, many of them tribal. The ugly factory looks rather out of place in such a beautiful setting, the Western Ghats mountains clearly visible in the distance.
… holds a placard that says, ‘fresh air, fresh water, our birth right!’ Villagers have been … one of the most plentiful supplies of groundwater in Kerala and because it provided an … built a big factory that soon began turning water into fizzy pop, churning out as many as …
Some 245 Indian villages are in the middle of being destroyed by a $7 billion dam project that will consume more energy than it provides and has even been condemned by its World Bank sponsors.
… sturdy central wooden beams poking out of the water. Next to Katrikaki’s old home, in a … faces. It was only two weeks earlier that the water level in the reservoir had risen and … who had released over 150,000 cusecs of water from the upstream Tawa dam over the last …
Since colonising Tibet in 1959, China has ripped out virgin forests, dug up minerals and metals, and dumped nuclear waste with little regard for the fragile ecology of the Tibetan plateau.
… News World Bank International Rivers Dams Water Tibet China Dams International … birds wing across the deep blue sky and any water that is left in the mostly dried-up … Arun, Manas, Yangtse and Yellow – provide water for more than 85 per cent of Asia’s …
Wander down the meat aisle of any supermarket and you will find mountains of chicken being sold at unbelievably cheap prices. The real reasons for this cannot be found on the label.
… poultry industry. We were gazing into a hot-water tank into which the dead birds were … It was 3pm and, as at many factories, the water was only changed once a day. It was a … either through injection or in their food and water. By the end of the 1990s about 450 …
If you want evidence that global warming is happening, you need only look to China. Unseen by the rest of the world, much of the north of the country is turning into a land of droughts, dust storms and deserted villages.
… by little ridges of soil to guide irrigation water around the plants. The narrow road was … sheep and criss-crossed by gullies and eroded watercourses. Behind the occasional wall, sand … a dozen sheep, which all crowded around the water trough when Mr Dong pumped water up from …
The US authorities have allowed Formosa Plastics and other chemicals corporations to poison the waterways of the Texas Gulf Coast for decades. When local shrimp-boat operator Diane Wilson found out what was going on she single-handedly set about forcing Formosa to clean up its act.
… Crisis Industrial Plastics Community Fresh Water Boycotts Campaigns US Children … other chemicals corporations to poison the waterways of the Texas Gulf Coast for decades. … 30 years after the passage of the 1972 Clean Water Act, which promised that the US’s waters …
The reckless deep-sea gold rush that could turn the North American continental shelf into one giant factory-style fish farm
… with silver vigour – gasp forlornly at the water’s surface, gulping down air as they … Norway’s arctic torrents, in the tropical waters off Hawaii, other species of fish are … and benign. A diver moves slowly through underwater twilight towards a huge grey form the …
It takes no more than a gentle nudge to push a man over the edge of a cliff, but it is almost impossible to haul him back before he hits the ground. Given that we show no sign of putting a stop to global warming, Peter Bunyard takes a look at what the future might hold
… sea rises, perhaps a foot or more, as sea water expanded in volume as it got hotter; … increase in the flow of cold fresh water into the Arctic Circle, which would curb … saltiness and low temperature of the surface waters in the higher latitudes. The cold, …
The ongoing battle between US tree-sitters and North America’s big logging firms pitches some of the world’s most determined activists against some of its most ruthless corporations. It is a battle that the tree-sitters simply must not lose.
… struggle to save northern California’s Headwaters Forest three tree-sitters perched 130 … in the middle of the night because flood-waters are sliding off hillsides denuded of … washed-out roads. Houses sport two-foot-high water-lines in every room. Natural forests act …
The biggest and most indiscriminate killers of wildlife on the planet, commercial fishing fleets have brought us to the edge of a maritime ecological disaster, with fish stocks facing extinction all around the world.
… Canadians learned. When it comes to our own waters – and remember, half of the fish we eat … which protrude beyond Canadian territorial waters. More of those remnant cod later. What … our hunt for fish does not stop in European waters any more. Few Europeans are aware of …
Barbara Streisand prides herself on being a movie star with an environmental conscience. So why did she take one man to court over his efforts to protect the California coastline?
… permit issued in 1982. He also insists that water quality engineers have found no … between the ‘park’ and the decline in water quality in the lagoon. Hanscom rejects … fungicides and herbicides into adjacent tidal waters.’ The view from above Hanscom knows …
A harrowing insight into the hugely profitable and brutal world of captive dolphins
… and smaller. The dolphin trainers get in the water with long pieces of rope. They tie … line the dolphins up in very shallow water, close to the rocky beach. The dolphins … escape. They get entangled in the nets underwater and, unable to reach the surface to …
Supermarket in-store bakeries are nothing but bogus ‘retail theatre’
… of pre-weighed flour. You press a button on a water meter and mix to create a ‘no-time’ … control the volume and texture of the bread. Water: Bread is sold by weight, so added water, the cheapest ingredient, is one of the …
Haiti is a failed state: one of those places that just can’t seem to get its act together, despite the best efforts of benevolent Western powers. Or so the mainstream media would have you believe. Yet history tells us a more complicated story.
… are not restricted to the land: most of its water is polluted by waste, soil run-offs and inadequate sewage systems. This water pollution affects many of the country’s … stock of fish for local fishermen. Water throughout the country is not fit for …
‘If we could think locally, we would take far better care of things than we do now. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, "What will this do for our community?" tends toward the right answer for the world.’ Wendell Berry
… they live? 18 What is the source of your tap water at home? And what’s in it? 19 How much water do you use at home each year? 20 When …
The mainstream farming media dismiss biodynamics as a fad affordable only by the wealthy – so why are big arable farmers sowing seeds under full moons?
… dilute the concentrated essence many times in water to make a liquid fertiliser to be spread … widespread pollution of our rivers and groundwater by run-off from the excessive use of … maintaining the vital resources of soil and water and the wild creatures that are integral …
This is an actual letter sent to a man named Ryan DeVries by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, State of Michigan.
… L. Price District Representative Land and Water Management Division The Defendant Mr … as the sky is blue, the grass is green and water flows downstream. They have more dam …
She is our sister. That garment holds the story of her life. If we ignore it, if we do not care to understand, she suffers. And so do we.
… ground. When it rains, these huts drip with water. During the monsoon the workers’ … up to 60 people have to share one outdoor water pump: the water is filthy. There are also two or three …
Fresh, convenient, versatile or overpriced leaves soaked in pesticides and produced by slave labour?
… packers in the UK. Jon Fielder, director of Waterwise – a company that sells ozone-based … UK packaged salad producers are immersed in a water-chlorine mixture. The chlorine level is … been properly composted, or from contaminated water. Good hygiene practices are essential to …