Carlsberg the latest to suffer water backlash

richard — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:16:31 -0600

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.

Corporate Vultures Lurk Behind the World Food Crisis

verda — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:40:36 -0600

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.

Johannesburg High Court declares prepaid water meters unlawful & unconstitutional

richard — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:46:56 -0600

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.

Turkey's Government Plans Sweeping Water Privatisation in Run-up to World Water Forum in Istanbul

richard — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:07:11 -0600

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.

Turning on Canada's Tap?

karl — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:42:08 -0700

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.

Liquid Asset

karl — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:41:30 -0700

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.

125 Public Interest Leaders Urge U.N. to Withdraw Support from CEO Water Mandate

richard — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:25:21 -0700

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.

The Water Front: Water Privatization and Bottled Water

richard — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:48:53 -0700

“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.

We should all support NAFTA renegotiation

richard — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:30:38 -0700

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.

Pulling Heart Strings for Profit: How the Bottled Water Industry is Fighting the Backlash

richard — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:21:22 -0700

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.

Food & Energy Sovereignty Now: Brazilian Grassroots Position on Agroenergy

richard — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:57:21 -0700

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.

Watershed

richard — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:49:33 -0700

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.

It's just water, right? Wrong. Bottled water is set to be the latest battleground in the eco war

richard — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:44:03 -0700

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.

Eastern Canada Vulnerable to Oil Shortages; Report from Polaris Calls for Canada to Set Up Strategic Petroleum Reserves

richard — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:53:03 -0700

Canada is currently the most vulnerable country in the industrial world to short-term oil supply crises, and we need to establish strategic petroleum reserves to remedy the problem. This is the key finding of a report released today by Polaris Institute and Alberta’s Parkland Institute.

Oil in My Water?

richard — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:23:06 -0700

Read how Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon, ConocoPhillips and British Petroleum are intimately linked to the production of bottled water.