Water

  • Ramshackle tin roof building with open sewer

    Cocoa boom, water bust

    Catherine Early
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    Cocoa-growing communities in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa, forced to drink water from unsafe ditches and streams.
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    Water Pressure

    Tom Hardy
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    A Citizens' Assembly: 'It's ours, we'll fix it.'
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    Shared waters: management

    Luzia Lambuça
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    How drought-provoked water scarcity is creating tensions between Portugal and Spain.
  • Network of fracking sites in America

    Fracking in India

    Shashikant Yadav
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    Corporations in India can explore shale gas reserves without obtaining environmental clearances.
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    Coronavirus and access to clean water

    Emily Folk
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    Lack of access to clean water has during the coronavirus crisis been highlighted in developed countries like the United States in ways not previously noticed.
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    Cáceres rejects lithium mine

    Hannibal Rhoades
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    Citizens of Cáceres, Spain, are opposing lithium mining project that jeopardises World Heritage and sustainable livelihoods at a new extractive frontier.
  • floating communities

    Architecture and urban flooding

    Staff Reporter
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    Exhibition showcases projects by leading architects in the field of flood resilient architecture.
  • Rio Maipo

    The privatization of rivers in Chile

    Andrés Kogan Valderrama
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    Auctioning-off rivers for private gain has severe social and environmental impacts. But there is a better way.
  • Beaver by a riverbank

    Bringing back beavers

    Joshua Harris
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    'By bringing back the beaver, and allowing our rivers to freestyle through the landscape, we could revive these incredible ecosystems.'
  • Winter sein fishermen on Lake Puruvesi, Finland

    The right to be cold

    Tero Mustonen
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    Melting ice and climate collapse threaten Finland's lakes and the ancient, sustainable fishing traditions associated with them.
  • Ross coral

    Letter from Lyme Bay

    Horatio Morpurgo
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    Pollution, potting and community action at Lyme Bay all demonstrate that we need to think synoptically about living systems.
  • California river

    Hydropower: untapped energy?

    Emily Folk
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    We need to increase our energy resource by 35 percent by 2035 - it's time we start harnessing water.
  • Protester in Flint holding brown water and hair

    Thirst for justice

    Leana Hosea
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    Pollution, poisoning and the loss of human life due to unsafe water are the accepted costs of doing business in America.
  • Pacific Rim out of El Salvador protest outside World Bank

    Challenging global corporate power

    James Shultz
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    International corporations are decimating nature, destroying lives and manipulating opinion. Here's how to stop them..
  • Mine building Yellowknife Northwest Territories Canada

    Undermining the watercycle

    Hannibal Rhoades
    Sara Campanales
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    A critical appraisal of the mining industry’s contributions to the global water crisis, on World Water Day 2019 and in the wake of recent disasters.
  • Children playing in water fountain

    Heatwaves across UK show we need publicly-owned water

    Adam McGibbon
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    Extreme water waste is driven by private profit motives - and is unacceptable in a time of climate change. The UK must bring its water supply back into public ownership, argues ADAM McGIBBON
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