The Michigan Supreme Court finally ended an energy company's bid to discharge millions of gallons of treated oil field wastewater into the pristine headwaters of the AuS able River. In a 4:3 decision, the majority of the Court, lead by the opinion of Justice Tom Davis, reversed a Court of Appeals decision that left open the potential for Merit...
It is with great pleasure that we today share a brief immediate report from Chennai, where RPW partners have successfully launched the Water Organisations Platform of India. A number of international delegates have participated in the international conference on “Water Partnerships towards meeting climate challenge” at Chennai on 6th and 7th...
All too often issues related to the environment and policy become divisive, with two polarized sides arguing on menial points and blaming one another rather than working with one another to meet common goals. As we look towards a future of mounting environmental concerns, we will have to put aside this negative rhetoric if we are to truly see a...
Ten Mixteco men led me across a stream and through a cornfield on a toilet tour of Mini Numa. At each adobe hut housing a shiny white flush toilet, I snapped a photo of a contented owner. In recent years, six children had died in this small village from diseases rooted in poverty and lack of sanitation. With the support of the human rights...
The eyes of the world are on Temacapulin. So declared a banner at an anti-dam rally. Solidarity is probably the single best hope for the 500 residents of this sleepy Mexican town on the brink of being submerged.
It’s a battle of David and Goliath proportions. Father Gabriel, the local priest, tweaked the final words of the Lord’s Prayer, urging, “...
Lets take a recent such case, in the Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh, in the Indian Himalayas. The small, lively stream called "Pakhanoj" or Haripur nala, near village Haripur, is the primary source for drinking, irrigation etc water for 19 small villages. In addition, being a fast-moving cold water stream, ther are several small Trout farms,...
All rivers are a lifeblood for the people and the earth but the Ganges symbolizes so much to so many people. That makes its mismanagement especially painful. Read Ragendra Singh’s letter from Tarun Bharat Sangh’s (TBS) to learn about a new campaign to revitalize it.
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Dear friends,
A remarkable piece of water history should have been headline news everywhere this week.
After more than a decade of grassroots organizing and lobbying, the global water justice movement achieved a significant victory when the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to affirm "the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation...
On July 28, after years of grassroots pressure, the United Nations’ General Assembly will consider and debate a resolution supporting the right to "safe and clean drinking water and sanitation”.
Maude Barlow, former Senior Advisor on Water to the President of the United Nations General Assembly described the denial of access to clean water as the...
It is widely acknowledged that greenhouse gas emission-fuelled climate change is having a profound and negative impact on fresh water systems around the world. Warmer weather causes more rapid evaporation of lakes and rivers, reduced snow and ice cover on open water systems, and melting glaciers. What is less understood is that our collective...
