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TURNING ON CANADA’S TAP?
The New, Improved Water Cycle
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Inside the Bottle, Revised and Updated Edition
Archived NewsBytes
Whose Canada?
Archived Corporate Profiles
Ice River Springs/Aquafarms 93 Exposed
Wetting California's Appetite
Fuelling Fortress America
Boots on the Ground
Boots on the Ground: A report on Canadian Military Operations...
Headlines
Feature: How to Manufacture a Global Food Crisis: How "free trade" is destroying Third World agriculture and who's fighting back
Posted May 16, 2008 in [Trade]
Walden Bello, The Nation, June 2008 edition - When tens of thousands of people staged demonstrations in Mexico last year to protest a 60 percent increase in the price of tortillas, many analysts pointed to biofuel as the culprit.
» read moreFeature: The Polaris Institute Along with 26 Other Groups Fight Attempt to Repeal Crucial Climate Provision from 2007 U.S. Energy Bill
Posted May 12, 2008 in [Energy]
WASHINGTON, May 8, 2008, NRDC Press Release – Today, the Natural Resources Defense Council and 26 other U.S.
» read moreCarlsberg the latest to suffer water backlash
Posted May 9, 2008 in [Corporations]
Jenny Wiggins, May 8, 2008, Financial Times - Carlsberg, which owns the water brands, Ramlosa and Arkina, yesterday underscored the growing environmental backlash against bottled water by warning of falling sales in Europe as people switch to tap water.
» read moreCorporate Vultures Lurk Behind the World Food Crisis
Posted April 30, 2008 in [Trade]
Anuradha Mittal, AlterNet, April 29, 2008 - The IMF, WTO and the rest of the neoliberal world are still pushing more trade as a cure for what ails us.
» read moreJohannesburg High Court declares prepaid water meters unlawful & unconstitutional
Posted April 30, 2008 in [Water]
Johannesburg High Court finds enforced choice between pre-paid meter and standpipe to be unlawful and unconstitutional and orders City of Johannesburg to provide full range of water delivery service options.
» read moreTurkey's Government Plans Sweeping Water Privatisation in Run-up to World Water Forum in Istanbul
Posted April 23, 2008 in [Water]
Olivier Hoedeman and Orsan Senalp, April 2008, Corporate Europe Observatory - In March 2009 the Turkish government will host the fifth World Water Forum against a backdrop of what is probably the most sweeping water privatisation programme in the world.
» read moreTurning on Canada's Tap?
Posted April 3, 2008 in [Water]
April 3, 2008 - The Polaris Institute released today a new report on bulk water exports called Turning on Canada’s Tap? The report, prepared by Tony Clarke, Executive Director of the Polaris Institute, outlines why Canada needs a comprehensive policy and strategy now on bulk water exports to the United States.
» read moreLiquid Asset
Posted March 28, 2008 in [Energy]
Andrew Nikiforuk, The Globe and Mail, Report on Business Magazine, March 28, 2008 - Here in Canada, we tend to think that while water scarcity, drying rivers and toxic lakes may be huge global problems, they really only affect places like China and the Middle East.
» read more125 Public Interest Leaders Urge U.N. to Withdraw Support from CEO Water Mandate
Posted March 25, 2008 in [Corporations]
New York - Leaders from more than 125 environmental, public health, water justice, human rights and corporate accountability organizations in 35 countries, are urging United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to withdraw his support from the CEO Water Mandate.
» read moreThe Water Front: Water Privatization and Bottled Water
Posted March 19, 2008 in [Water]
“What if you lived by the largest body of fresh water in the world but could no longer afford to use it?” - The Water Front, a documentary film by Liz Miller, is the story of one community’s determined resistance to water privatization.
» read moreWe should all support NAFTA renegotiation
Posted March 14, 2008 in [Trade]
Frances Russell, Winnipeg Free Press, March 5, 2008 - Canadians and Mexicans should pressure their governments to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement — Canadians to regain control over energy and Mexicans to regain control over agricultural land.
» read morePulling Heart Strings for Profit: How the Bottled Water Industry is Fighting the Backlash
Posted March 13, 2008 in [Corporations]
Richard Girard, The Polaris Institute, March 13, 2008 - World Water Day 2008 will see a flurry of announcements from bottled water companies who claim to be helping solve the globe’s water crisis. The catch is that these altruistic claims are intimately tied to major advertising campaigns designed to convince the public to buy their products.
» read moreFood & Energy Sovereignty Now: Brazilian Grassroots Position on Agroenergy
Posted February 26, 2008 in [Energy]
While Brazil's leadership on biofuels - particularly sugarcane-based ethanol - has been held as a global model for sustainable biomass production, a new report from the Oakland Institute and Terra de Direitos describes the opposition that biofuels face from the Brazilian social movements and civil society.
» read moreWatershed
Posted February 11, 2008 in [Energy][Water]
Watershed, a documentary by Lauren Rosenfeld, intimately captures agrarian life in the heart of the Andes Mountains and portrays the struggle of a Chilean farming community to preserve its culture, land, and water rights.
» read moreIt's just water, right? Wrong. Bottled water is set to be the latest battleground in the eco war
Posted February 11, 2008 in [Water]
Lucy Siegle, February 10, 2008, The Observer - When the National Consumer Council recently investigated 'rip-off mineral water' in restaurants, it found one in five people 'slightly nervous' or 'too scared' to ask for tap water.
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