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Blue Gold: Have the Next Resource Wars Begun?

It has often been said that water is "blue gold" and the next resource wars will be fought, not over oil, but over water. Maude Barlow, senior advisor to the United Nations on water issues, wrote that the way in which we view water "will in large part determine whether our future is peaceful or perilous."

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 25, 2009
4:43 PM

CONTACT: Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Erin Allweiss, 202-513-6254 or cell: 202-277-8370;
Monty Schmitt, 415-875-6100

Historic Lands Bill Will Restore Water Flow and Salmon to San Joaquin River

Congress Passes Package That Will Protect America's Land, Water and Rivers

WASHINGTON - March 25 - The U.S. House of Representatives today passed an omnibus public lands package, which includes a landmark settlement to restore water and salmon populations to California’s San Joaquin River. This vote will send a bill to the president’s desk that provides the additional authority and funding needed to restore runs of thousands of salmon each year.
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Posted in conservation, Environment, water

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 25, 2009
1:30 PM

CONTACT: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
Jerry Phillips (850) 877-8097; Luke Eshleman (202) 265-7337

Lake Okeechobee Flow Cutoff Looms

Lee County Decries Drinking Water Woes and Caloosahatchee Salinity

WASHINGTON - March 25 - Lee County is bitterly protesting a proposed cutoff of the water from Lake Okeechobee into the Caloosahatchee River and Estuary, citing loss of drinking water supplies, a rise in salinity and harm to its tourist industry, according to correspondence released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The fight pits agricultural users against wildlife and urban demand, as South Florida's water supplies and quality situation continue to deteriorate.

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Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is a national alliance of local state and federal resource professionals. PEER's environmental work is solely directed by the needs of its members. As a consequence, we have the distinct honor of serving resource professionals who daily cast profiles in courage in cubicles across the country.

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Posted in conservation, Environment, water, water quality

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 25, 2009
10:56 AM

CONTACT: Water Advocates
John Sauer, Water Advocates
(202) 293-4003

Dear Secretary Clinton: 'Women of the World Need Safe Water'

WASHINGTON - March 25 - In an unprecedented letter of concern to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, prominent women have urged enhanced U.S. leadership to reduce the burden on women from inadequate drinking water and sanitation in developing countries. The Secretary of State received the letter between International Women's Day (March 8) and World Water Day (March 22) to emphasize this critical linkage.

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Water Advocates is the first US-based nonprofit organization dedicated solely to increasing American support for worldwide access to safe, affordable and sustainable supplies of drinking water and adequate sanitation.
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Posted in water, women's rights

Liquid War: Postcard from Pipelineistan

What happens on the immense battlefield for the control of Eurasia will provide the ultimate plot line in the tumultuous rush towards a new, polycentric world order, also known as the New Great Game.

Posted in oil, water, Afghanistan, Asia, Iraq, Pakistan, Russia

Water at 'The End of the World'

"We saw you fly in," the villagers told us, pointing to the sky. We'd arrived in Central African Republic (a.k.a. CAR). Since there's only one flight in and out of the country per week, we knew they meant it. CAR is one of the poorest countries in the world, landlocked in the dead center of Africa.

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Troubled Waters Hard to Bridge

A woman washes clothes in Ahmedabad, India. UN General Assembly Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann said in a message to the forum on the eve of its closure that \"water is a public trust, a common heritage of people and nature, and a fundamental human right. I am convinced that we must challenge the notion that water is a commodity to be bought and sold on the open market.\" (AFP/File/Sam Panthaky)

ISTANBUL - The fifth World Water Forum (WWF) held in Istanbul ended Sunday with wide-ranging differences among governments and groups with an interest in water.

The forum adopted a declaration calling for "new and adequate resources" for the water sector. It also stressed the need for increased vigilance against corruption, and for preparedness for climate change.

Posted in Human Rights, privatization, water

Coping in a World of 'Peak Water'

Women carry buckets of water in Bissau March 6, 2009. (REUTERS/Luc Gnago/GUINEA-BISSAU)

UNITED NATIONS - As more than 20,000 people meet in Istanbul for a major week-long conference on future management of the world's water supplies, women's groups are working to ensure that policy decisions about this critical natural resource take their concerns into account.

About a billion people currently lack safe drinking water, and another two and a half billion have no access to sanitation.

Posted in climate change, inequality, water, women's rights

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 19, 2009
3:01 PM

CONTACT: Food & Water Watch
Jeff Conant -- 0090-531-393-5789

Democratic Forum Demands Public Water for All

ISTANBUL, Turkey - March 19 - International water justice activists converged at the People's Water Forum today to affirm the human right to water and present diverse visions of existing public and community-led water management practices that protect water for people and nature, and can ensure water access for all regardless of their ability to pay.

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Food & Water Watch is a nonprofit consumer organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food. We challenge the corporate control and abuse of our food and water resources by empowering people to take action and by transforming the public consciousness about what we eat and drink.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 19, 2009
12:15 PM

CONTACT: Food & Water Watch
Kate Fried (202) 683-2500

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Water Study Flawed, Shortsighted

Statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter

WASHINGTON - March 19 - "The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD)'s new report Managing Water for All recycles the same tried and failed market-based solutions to the problem of ensuring, as the UN recognized in 2002, "The human right to water is indispensable for leading a life in human dignity." While the OECD recognizes the dire scope of the problem and the additional climate change risks going forward, the report fails to provide new leadership on these vital questions.

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Food & Water Watch is a nonprofit consumer organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food. We challenge the corporate control and abuse of our food and water resources by empowering people to take action and by transforming the public consciousness about what we eat and drink.
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Posted in privatization, water, water quality
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