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nbc25news.com
March 30, 2018
Water activists say the water provided for free at distribution sites are not one of the brands reportedly tainted with tiny particles of plastic, but Snowden is still concerned. "It's an issue with trust. I don't trust anything," she says. Snowden says it's hard to trust anyone after the city was failed by so many public officials for so longÃâà...
Governance Now
March 30, 2018
There were fears that the move would further hasten the process of commodification of water – an issue that water activists have been concerned about particularly after they labelled the World Water Council (WWC), which organises the WWF every three years, as pro big business houses involved inÃâà...
Orangeville Citizen
March 23, 2018
Just turn on the tap and there it is, more than enough to quench our thirst. But what if it didn't come our right away? What if it was unsafe, and everywhere we go, we have to get out our wallets to quench that thirst? The Environment Committee of the Mono Mulmur Citizens' Coalition (MC2) will be hosting aÃâà...
Tech in Africa
March 23, 2018
Georgie Badiel a Burkina Faso water activists launched water-based Georgie Badiel Foundation in 2015. In the year 2004, she was the Miss Africa and participated in fashion modeling as well as branding in Oscar de La Renta and Marc Jacobs. In February this year, she took part in Diane VonÃâà...
CBC.ca
March 22, 2018
Canadian water activist Autumn Peltier, a 13-year-old from Manitoulin Island, addresses the UN General Assembly on world water day. Her plea to protect the world's water was part of the UN's launch of the International Decade for Action on Water for Sustainable Development. (Manuel Elias/UN Photo).
Michigan Radio
March 21, 2018
A group of water activists who have had their trial delayed for over two years are ready for it to move forward. The so-called Homrich Nine were charged with disorderly conduct after blocking the trucks scheduled to complete water shutoffs in Detroit from leaving Homrich Inc. back in July of 2014.
ABC Online
March 18, 2018
Far-west New South Wales is mourning the loss of deeply loved and respected Indigenous elder, water activist, poet and musician Bill Riley, who died in Wilcannia last month at the age of 83. Mr Riley was a Malyangapa man born in White Cliffs, but he was adopted by many of the region's IndigenousÃâà...
Laredo Morning Times
March 14, 2018
Clean-water activists protested a planned natural gas pipeline on Wednesday, demanding from the steps of the Maryland State House that Gov. Larry Hogan, R, halt the project before the state loses the power to intervene. But a spokeswoman for the governor says the issue is for the federal Army Corps ofÃâà...
Maryland Daily Record
March 14, 2018
Clean-water activists in Maryland say drinking water could be polluted by a planned pipeline that would carry natural gas under the Potomac River and C & O Canal. Complete access to news articles on this website is available to Daily Record subscribers who are logged in. Subscribers may login at theÃâà...
Grist
December 31, 1999
Water activist Steve Tamar expected just a dozen students to show up to his citizen-science training at Maricao High School in western Puerto Rico this past October. Instead, the sweltering hot auditorium was packed with teenagers looking to help test the island's water. “Eventually the whole school gotÃâà...
