Category Water

Sure it’s clean, cheap and plentiful now, but Dorothy Clippindale worries the Capital Region’s water supply will one day be controlled by a profit-hungry multinational corporation. Clippindale, an Oak Bay resident and member of the recently formed Greater Victoria Water…

Will Transnational water companies swallow El Salvador’s water supply? The office of SETA, El Salvador’s water workers union, sits like a mouse at the elephant’s feet. The union’s plain, two room office sits next door to the huge, block-long two…

Water activists and non governmental organizations in north and central India have joined hands to fight water privatization initiatives by Indian state governments, oppose World Bank funding, discourage the $200 billion river-linking project, encourage conservation and provide for alternative water…

Bechtel drops $50 million claim to settle Bolivian water dispute. Bechtel, a global engineering and construction company based in San Francisco, today reached agreement with the government of Bolivia, dropping a legal demand for $50 million after a revolt over…

Are we to decide the importance of issues by asking how fashionable or glamorous they are? Or by asking how seriously they affect how many? – Nelson Mandela. This two-part article explains in depth the problem of poor water supply…