Category Water

The 14 worst corporate evildoers

Among them Coca-Cola Coca-Cola Company is perhaps the most widely recognized corporate symbol on the planet. The company also leads in the abuse of workers’ rights, assassinations, water privatization, and worker discrimination. In India, Coca-Cola destroys local agriculture by privatizing…

WTO protests: Water a focus

Hong Kong — Activists gathered here say that no issue highlights the tension between the human values they advocate and the economic logic of the legion of corporate globalizers that have descended on this city more clearly than water. Water…

Water privatization

Did you know that more than one billion people do not have access to clean water, that over 40 percent of the world’s population lives in places under water stress and that bottled water companies get checked just once every…

The World Bank again

Rights groups seek inclusion of right to water in constitution On the ongoing 2nd National Urban Water Sector Reform Project in Nigeria, which is being financed by a $200mWorld Bank loan, Mr. Babalobi called for its  review to "make it…

Ghana fights water privatization

Private participation in water delivery faces stiff challenge. Government’s move to handover the management of the country’s water delivery could run into difficulty. This follows the determination of the civil society groups to resist the implementation of what has come…