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 …
Dead fish found after cyclones and storms forced Rio Tinto's QMM mine in Madagascar to dump water causes alarm.
… Dead fish found as mine dumps water Yvonne Orengo | 25th March 2022 | News … Rio Tinto's QMM mine in Madagascar to dump water causes alarm. Two mine tailings dam … a million cubic metres of mine process water from 8 March 2022 to prevent a complete …
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 …
Communities lack vital information about how climate breakdown threatens essential water supply.
… Water security threats poorly understood … November 2022 | News Nature Sustainability Water Security Imperial College London … how climate breakdown threatens essential water supply. Current information on how the …
Water demand is a major blind spot on the road to net zero.
… Adam Wentworth | 7th December 2022 | Comment Water Management Economics Editor’s Picks 26093981360_57794be4a5_c.jpg Water demand is a major blind spot on the road … The Rhine, a vitally important economic waterway, has suffered months without …
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 …
A decade of 'diminishing' regulation funding puts pressure on water pollution enforcement.
… regulation funding puts pressure on water pollution enforcement. Reductions in … Agency efforts to take action against water companies for pollution, the regulator … chairman Alan Lovell to answer questions on water companies’ environmental performance and …
London and the South East of England could run out of water within 25 years, according to Christian Aid.
… the South East of England could run out of water within 25 years, according to Christian … Christian Aid. The charity warns the toll of water shortages will be felt most by poor … that less than three percent of the world’s water is suitable for drinking, and most of …
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 …
UN Report: 34 percent of agricultural land is degraded, water is overdrawn.
… 34 percent of agricultural land is degraded, water is overdrawn. The land and water resources farmers rely on are today … degraded soil while polluting and depleting water supplies and shrinking the world’s …
Rio Tinto QMM mine failures 'root of conflict in South Madagascar.'
… of a million cubic metres of mine basin water from the Rio Tinto QMM ilmenite mine … heavy storms. The company denies its mine waters caused the fish deaths. These events … sending a public message via his Minister of Water that “QMM are responsible for all this”. …
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 …
A federal judge has ruled the expansion of Montana coal mine illegal for impacts on water resources, the Yellowstone River, and the climate.
… of Montana coal mine illegal for impacts on water resources, the Yellowstone River, and … the impacts from this massive expansion on water resources, the Yellowstone River, and … diverting 25,000 to 50,000 acre feet of water from the Yellowstone River each year. …
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 …
New records set for rising seas and heating oceans in 2021, UN report shows.
… Hell and high water Emily Beament | 19th May 2022 | News … acidic as carbon dioxide dissolved into sea water, threatening wildlife. The report also … warned that extreme weather created food and water shocks, displaced millions of people and …
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 …
Scientists are urging the Biden administration to protect the endangered Gulf of Mexico whale from extinction - which are under threat due to fossil fuel extraction.
… of marine mammals has gone extinct in U.S waters. But with only about 50 individual … whale species resident year-round in the waters of the United States. Yet few on-water measures have been established to …
New Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) watchdog warns of impending tipping points and demands action from UK Government.
… Government. Toxic air that harms health, and water pollution from sewage and farming must … worrying and persistent declines in air and water quality, species and habitats. Slow The … Addressing the crisis in England’s air, water, landscapes and seas should have the …