Four dollars for a gallon of gas is ridiculous enough, but $4 for a gallon of water could someday became a reality, that is if oil tycoons like T. Boone Pickens and water bottling companies have their way. Privatization of water in which companies control the public’s water sources and free water is a thing [...]
World Bank Supports Harmful Water Corporations, Report Finds Monday, 16 April 2012 09:36By Johanna Treblin, Inter Press Service | Report Water privatisation has been proven not to help the poor, yet a quarter of all World Bank funding goes directly to corporations and the private sector, bypassing both governments and its own [...]
Group to World Bank: Stop Funding Water Privatization – Common Dreams staff The World Bank’s policy of funding the privatization of water is a financial and development failure, says a report released today by Corporate Accountability International. “Water for the people”: Sign from a 10-year celebration of the Cochabamba “Water Wars” [...]
Photo Credit: Shutterstock/ koya979 Why the Right to Water Is Under Attack World leaders are trying to roll back momentum that would instill the right to water as an essential human right. March 26, 2012 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via [...]
Photo Credit: Shutterstock/Dragana Gerasimoski 5 Deadly Threats to Our Precious Drinking Water Supply World Water Day is a chance to stop and realize that humanity is facing a frightening water crisis. March 21, 2012 | link http://www.alternet.org/story/154648/5_deadly_threats_to_our_precious_drinking_water_supply?page=entire If you brushed your teeth this morning or flushed the toilet or had a cup of coffee, consider yourself lucky. Actually, if you [...]
Photo Credit: Lucian Coman via Shutterstock Three Factors Driving Water Scarcity Throughout Much of the World An “unprecedented” rise in the demand for food as the population grows, rapid urbanization and climate change are the drivers of increasing global water stress. MARSEILLES, France, March 12, 2012 (ENS) – “If we fail today to make water [...]
Humanity’s Growing Impact on the World’s Freshwater It takes water to make everything, and the explosion of demand for all manner of products is draining rivers, shrinking lakes and depleting aquifers. February 23, 2012 | I remember only too well the reaction given me by a Sudanese here in Australia when he first saw people [...]
Panetta Slips Up on Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan By Adam Entous KABUL, Afghanistan — Leon Panetta, on his first day here as U.S. defense secretary, made what appeared to be his first big policy announcement: The U.S. would keep 70,000 troops in the country until the end of 2014, when the Afghans are scheduled to assume [...]
Water Scarcity Compounds Tensions Between India and Pakistan Nothing is quite as threatening for Pakistan as India planning 33 separate dams within the Indus river system. July 5, 2011 | Advertisement As Egypt’s post-Mubarak regime begins to pursue cooperative water rights agreements with other Nile countries, the Indus River Basin is quickly turning water into a [...]
