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1. SOUTH AFRICA: Union 'mourns' on world water day

   The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) has called for this year's world water day ... having access to water. The United Nations chose "water and health" as the theme for world ... water day on March 22. Nothing could be more ironic in South Africa and across the African continent. ...

2. When water isn't free

   Phil Shannon Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale & Why We Bought It By Elizabeth Royte Scribe, ... 2008 248 pages, $32.95 (pb) Is drinking bottled water the "moral equivalent of driving ... a Hummer", asks Elizabeth Royte in Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It. Pretty close, ...

3. Roger Waters: Why I support boycotting Israel

   Middle East Roger Waters Roger Waters, best known as a member of British band Pink Floyd, released ... peace, freedom, justice and dignity that they all deserve. Israel March 13, 2011 872 Roger Waters sprays ...

4. Water and the thirst for profit

   The global water crisis and the coming battle for the right to water, in this century water is ... control of the world's freshwater supplies and turn water into the next major commodity boom. Since ... 1990, the privatisation of water has increased dramatically. Goldman Sachs has graphed how between 2000 ...

5. ALP waters down native title policy

   ALP waters down native title policy BY SIMON BUTLER At its national conference in Hobart, the ...

6. VSU: dead in the water?

   Resistance! VSU: dead in the water? By Cass Ilia NEWCASTLE The passage of the federal ...

7. Canadian PM in hot water over APEC '97

   Canadian PM in hot water over APEC '97 By Dr James Winter As the APEC leaders prepare to meet ...

8. Tamworth protest says O’Farrell broke promises to protect farmland, water

   farmland, water catchments and sensitive environments from coal and gas mining. Holding a giant banner ... reading “Barrys Broken Promises: Water Not Coal, Farms Not Gas”, the community held morning tea outside ... the cabinet meeting with “Farms not Gas” cakes and balloons and “Water Not Coal” T-Shirts. Premier ...

9. How CSG threatens drinking water catchments

   licences have been issued and development approved in vital drinking water catchments in NSW. The promise ... water catchment area, and will ensure that mining leases and mining exploration permits reflect that ... a decade — mining or any other activity to threaten water resources.” He also said: “[CSG] exploration ...

10. SOUTH AFRICA: 'Away with pre-paid water meters!'

    BY DALE McKINLEY JOHANNESBURG — Johannesburg Water Company (JOWCO) has embarked on a program of ... installing pre-paid water meters throughout Soweto, as part of "Operation Gcin'amanzi". The ... quality water. JOWCO claims that the poor will benefit by being able to "own" their water ...

11. CANADA: Blue Planet targets commodification of world's water

    a call by Maude Barlow to promote "a global water revolution". Barlow, chairperson of the ... international civil society meetings to take back control of our water". The host, Council of Canadians, ... waste-water treatment plant. In contrast to previous criticisms that the council has been excessively ...

12. South Africa: The problem of paying for water

    Handwashing and Paying for Water, found that pre-paid water metres have a negative effect on household ... hygiene, with insufficient handwashing increasing the risk of water-borne diseases and other health ... unrealistic to expect poor people to purchase, in advance, a basic good such as water." The findings give ...

13. GHANA: Campaign intensifies against water privatisation

    the government of Ghana's policy of privatising the water supply has been intensified, with the ... formation of the Ghana National Coalition Against the Privatisation of Water. CAP is campaigning to ensure ... that the right to water is explicitly guaranteed under the constitution of the Republic of Ghana. It ...

14. Irish gov't drowning in water scandals, protests

    Workers & unions Democracy Economy Duroyan Fertl Anti-water charge protests in Letterkenny, ... County Donegal on November 1. The Irish government’s unpopular public utility, Irish Water, has been ... opposition parties and the huge anti-water charges movement. The government revealed on July 15 that of ...

15. Otways logging causing Geelong water shortage

    By Sue Bull GEELONG — As Geelong enters phase two of water restrictions, 83,000 tonnes of native ... experts have demonstrated that low rainfall, not logging, was responsible for the city's water ... shortage. Geelong residents, who must hand water their gardens while watching both public and private lawns ...

16. British Labour fishes in troubled water

    privatisation of South African water. Just weeks before a water privatisation contract with British ... Africa. Biwater planned to finalise a contract to run the municipality of Nelspruit's water on ... material resources to deliver an equitable water service. Opposition from below continues. At an Alexandra ...

17. Qld: Hundreds rally to defend water from CSG

    water from coal and coal seam gas”. The rally in Queens Park was sponsored by the Lock and Gate Alliance ... and Defend Our Water Queensland. Lock the Gate Alliance spokesperson Drew Hutton told the rally: “We ... live in the driest country on earth. To allow the mining industry to pollute our water and destroy our ...

18. We Kid You Not: Fukushima, Taiwan plant leaking contaminated water

    Economy Environment We kid you not Fukushima spilling containimate water 'for years' ... ' “Workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have told the ABC that contaminated water has ... a former Fukushima site foreman. He says the leaks of contaminated water into the Pacific began in 2011. ...

19. PHOTOS & VIDEO: Cambodian authorities turn water cannon on landless protesters

    other social activists in Cambodia are shocked at the unprovoked use of three water cannon against ... give the protesters a warning [before using the water cannon] but did not give them enough time to ... protesters. This is the first time they used the high-pressure water hose against a community protest although ...

20. Water network launched at WSF in Kenya

    On January 24, water activists at the World Social Forum in Nairobi announced the formation of the ... African Water Network, to campaign against water privatisation. Hundreds of activists from groups and ... Al hassan Adam, "The launch of this network should put the water privateers, governments and ...

21. IRAQ: Water supply was deliberately contaminated

    The US-led forces deliberately destroyed Iraq's water supply system during the 1991 Gulf War ... Security Council sanctions, have thwarted attempts by Iraq to make contaminated water safe. A respected US ... Agency, issued the day after the war started, entitled "Iraq Water Treatment Vulnerabilities". ...

22. Briefs: Don't drink Ohio's water; Chiapas says no to highway

    Environment United States: Don’t drink Ohio’s water “The aquapocalypse in Toledo, Ohio is now ... morning when city officials had issued an unprecedented, region wide water advisory warning people not to ... drink or boil local tap water due to toxic contamination,” said an August 4 Counterpunch article. “It is ...

23. Ireland: Government drowns under water revolt, rising Sinn Fein

    Economy Duroyan Fertl Faced with growing public revolt against the introduction of water charges ... people, skilled workers and families, have emigrated in search of work and a better lifestyle. Water ... new charges on water use, levied via new state-owned company Irish Water, has brought years of ...

24. The fight to boycott is not over

    action to end Israeli apartheid Germany: Frankfurt City Council cancels concert by Roger Waters ...

25. We can solve the water crisis!

    in the Pub hosted by the Socialist Alliance on September 11. The topic — "Can we solve the water ... Alliance. A new report, Sustainable Water Options for Adelaide, had just been released by Greens MLC, Mark ... Parnell. Laffan told the forum: "We want to see Adelaide base its water strategy on exactly the ...

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