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 …
Water scarcity and mis-management in India are creating a significant human and ecological crisis that will only be worsened by climate change
… Coca-Cola just part of India’s water ‘free-for-all’ Tom Levitt | 4th December … Climate Change Politics And Economics India Water india2.jpg Coca-Cola uses enough water everyday to meet the world’s drinking …
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 …
An unreported war over natural resources in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories has led students from Bangor University to set up a radical eco-movement, Bustan al Qaraaqa, to address the issue. William Parry reports from Bethlehem
… Can British activists solve Middle Eastern water conflicts using permaculture? William … 25th January 2011 News Politics And Economics Water Natural Resources Farming Investigations … Palestinian access to Palestinian land and water resources. It’s a calculated process …
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 …
So-called extreme energy - including fracking, coal bed methane extraction and underground coal gasification - is being rolled out with little concern for the environment, leading campaigner, author and engineer Paul Mobbs tells the Ecologist Film Unit
… like the duel kettle you use to clean the tap water…it’s a big carbon filter. When you flush … which have been filtered out of groundwater for millions of years will come with it. … It’ll have a higher polluting impact, both water and air pollution, than existing energy …
Paul Mobbs, leading environmental campaigner, author and engineer, tells the Ecologist Film Unit that extraction industries, including coal bed methane extraction, are going ahead in the UK despite serious environmental concerns........
… like the duel kettle you use to clean the tap water…it’s a big carbon filter. When you flush … which have been filtered out of groundwater for millions of years will come with it. … It’ll have a higher polluting impact, both water and air pollution, than existing energy …
Poland is about to open its doors to an unprecedented dash for gas. But with multinational energy companies circling and widespread fracking about to begin, people and the environment are in the firing line. Andrew Wasley reports from Gdansk
… injecting – at high pressure – a mixture of water, sand and chemicals deep into the earth … to spread alarm. “The image of lighting your water faucet on fire [a key sequence in the … of his London visit. “The focus must be on water conservation, earth preservation, and …
Dirty deals between the European Commission and Ireland have enabled the world’s biggest trawler to plunder African fish stocks.
… fishing license to fish in international waters. But in October 2001 the European … excessive over-capacity way out of the water. The Atlantic Dawn was, therefore, … also allows the Atlantic Dawn to fish in EU waters three months out of the year. This is …
The World Bank’s 2008 World Development Report makes a grim prediction of what is to come:
… energy converters, require a lot of water and feed, and add to global methane … CO 2 . So much for modern efficiency. Without water, agriculture grinds to a halt. In developed countries with clean tap water widely available, it’s easy to forget …
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 …
A tale of Indians and airboats, giant alligators and one of the world’s greatest ecosystems hanging in the balance.
… of grass James Frankham | 1st March 2006 News Water Ecosystem American Indians Native … golden sawgrass and sinuous channels of dark water. ‘I was born right over there,’ he … airboat, stock-in-trade for navigating the waterways of the grassy interior. It resembles …
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 …
Natural gas provides an ideal complement to renewable energy sources - not a replacement, argues Mónica V. Cristina of Shale Gas Europe
… They include: contamination of drinking water with chemicals and methane, a worse … to stimulate conventional oil and gas wells, water wells and geothermal wells. In Germany … to close scrutiny. First, the concerns around water pollution. Several measures can be put …
As the new nuclear renaissance grows, so too does uranium extraction. In Niger, which boasts some of the world's richest deposits, NGOs say that the poor are being exploited for the West's 'clean energy'
… a spot formerly marked by little more than a watering hole. In an area where camels had … says he was told. Chareyron brought back water samples, which revealed contamination, … teams. When Chareyron speaks of contaminated water, he knows precisely how Areva - who deny …
Sandy Gall describes the genocide the Botswanan government is waging to clear the Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve
… of jewellery and as containers to store water under the sand against times of drought. … much shorter distances in pursuit of food and water and always in their own territory. Each … on which the Bushmen depended for survival: water, game and the wild plants of the …
The dash for unconventional gas may have brought financial benefits to some, but for struggling dairy farmers in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, the arrival of drilling wells could be the final nail in the coffin. Dimiter Kenarov reports
… Sheila Russell has stopped drinking the water from her private well and even refuses to water her produce with it, preferring instead a nearby spring-fed pond. Water tests have shown elevated levels of …
What does Douglas Gowan know that everyone else wants to keep hidden? For 40 years the story of Brofiscin Quarry – now the most polluted place in the UK – has been suppressed...
… of Pollution Act 1974, to protect air and water. Into the midst of this political and … of wastes that could interfere with the watercourses or groundwater, or the environment. Throughout the …
What does Douglas Gowan know that everyone else wants to keep hidden? For 40 years the story of Brofiscin Quarry – now the most polluted place in the UK – has been suppressed...
… of Pollution Act 1974, to protect air and water. Into the midst of this political and … of wastes that could interfere with the watercourses or groundwater, or the environment. Throughout the …
It’s hard to see what unconventional gas - including fracking and coal bed methane extraction - has to offer the UK with our vast renewable energy potential, says Mary Church
… deep in the earth and pumping a mixture of water and toxic chemicals under high pressure … vertically and horizontally and pumping out water to release gas. Drilling chemicals and … occurring in the coal can leach into the air, water and soil causing health and …
In an exclusive investigation, the Ecologist Film Unit reveals the impact of Indonesia's plans to privatise its entire 90,000 km coastline
… nets in the estuaries and shallow coastal waters of this region of Northern Java. But … all around them. Puddles of stagnant water surround the crumbling brick homes and … Kepu community, as well as the coastal waters and the seabed up to 12 km offshore, to …
A twenty-five year wait for first convictions relating to the gas leak at Bhopal chemical plant in India ends, but the contamination of the local environment and population continues
… Health Politics And Economics bhopal.jpg Water supplies in the local area are still … properly cleaned and contamination of groundwater supplies by toxic chemicals leaching … report published in December 2009 found that water supplies in a 3km radius of the site …
Natural gas could be a game changer for one impoverished Ohio city. But there are serious environmental and social risks associated with extracting it, reports Dimiter Kenarov
… of gallons of frack fluid – a mixture of water, sand and chemicals, some of them toxic … of that mixture then comes back as “produced water” or “brine,” laced underground with high … risks of contamination to ground and surface water, [but] through appropriate oversight, …