- Blue Gold
The battle against corporate theft of the world's water
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
International tensions around water are rising in many of the world's most volatile regions.This book exposes the enormity of the problem, the dangers of the proposed solution and the alternative, which is to recognize access to water as a fundamental human right, not dependent on ability to pay.
- Blue Gold: World Water Wars
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2008
A documentary, based on the book Blue Gold, by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, which examines environmental and political implications of the planet's dwindling water supply, and posits that wars in the future will be fought over water. The film also highlights some success stories of water activists around the world and makes a strong case for community action.
- China and India 'water grab' dams put ecology of Himalayas in danger
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
More than 400 hydroelectric schemes are planned in the mountain region, which could be a disaster for the environment.
- Citizens Mobilize Against Corporate Water Grabs
A Human Right, Not a Commodity
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
New Jersey became the latest state to subvert democracy by authorizing the fast-track sale or lease of water utilities without public notice, comment, or approval. The controversial decision highlights the intensifying struggle over who owns, controls, and profits from the most precious - and threatened - resource on Earth.
- Citizens worldwide mobilize against corporate water grabs
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The US and other governments are pushing a failed model of water privatization, but water is a human right, not just a commodity to be traded for profit or monopolized by corporations. Citizens and communities are fighting back to reclaim their water commons.
- The Cochabamba Water War of 2000 in 2014
Today's Betrayers Will Not Erase Our Memory
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Today's betrayers will not erase our memory: Fourteen years ago we won, today it seems like we lost, but we have to rise again to win, and we already know how to do it. From April 4 to 14 in the year 2000 the so-called "Final Battle" was waged in Cochabamba, Bolivia to prevent the privatization of our water. It was part of a strategy designed by the people of Cochabamba in the "Water War" that started on November 12, 1999. Today, after fourteen years of this historic struggle, the people's demands are still the same: democracy, transparency, participation and an economic model that allows us all to enjoy the riches that our Mother Earth generously provides for the benefit of all.
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Library: Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Water Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on water, rivers, streams, wetlands, lakes, rivers, oceans, marine life.
- FLOW: For Love of Water
Resource Type: Film/Video
- The History Behind the Organizer of the Water War
Oscar Olivera remembers how the Bolivian people took back their land and their power
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Many know Oscar Olivera as the voice and the organizer of the water war in Cochabamba in 2000. Others remember his experience as a factory worker.
- How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon of War
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Entire communities in the West Bank either have no access to water or have had their water supply reduced almost by half. This alarming development has been taking place for weeks, since Israel’s national water company, "Mekorot", decided to cut off – or significantly reduce – its water supply to Jenin, Salfit and many villages around Nablus, among other regions. Israel has been 'waging a water war' against Palestinians.
- Is Israel an Apartheid State?
Rhetoric or Reality? Summary of a Legal Study by the Human Sciences Research council of South Africa
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Do Israel's practices in occupied Palestinian territory, namely the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, amount to the crimes of colonialism and apartheid under international law?
- Nestlé: Malevolent Corporation Capitalizes on Global Water Crisis
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Demand for water is outstripping supply at an accelerating rate. Nestlé’s goal is to shift government policy away from providing public municipal water supplies to people, and toward a dependency on bottled water to provide basic drinking water.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 13, 2014
Libertarian Socialism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2014
The topic of the week is Libertarian Socialism. Articles on no-state solutions in Kurdistan; right-wing dirty tricks used to attack labour and environmental groups; scientists unravelling the risks of new pesticides; the terrors faced by fishermen in Gaza; and bringing books and seeking peace in Colombia. Film of the week is Even the Rain, and book of the week is Adolph Reed's Class Notes.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 27, 2014
Climate Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2014
The theme for this issue, and the topic of the week, is Climate Change. Groups and websites engaged in the fight for action on global warming and climate justice are featured. Book of the week is Magdoff and Foster's "What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism." In addition to articles on climate change, there are articles on Ebola, corporate tax evasion, and state terrorism, as well as a 1971 interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2015
SYRIZA
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
This week we're featuring the 40-point program which SYRIZA, the Greek coalition of the radical left, put forward to win the Greek election. Oliver Tickell writes about the mass media's latest campaign of pro-war propaganda, this time revolving around supposed "Russian aggression" in Ukraine, while Paul Edwards looks at another form of war propaganda, Clint Eastwood's 'American Sniper'. The Topic of the Week is Water Rights. Related items include the film "Blue Gold: World Water Wars," the featured website International Rivers, and articles on water-related struggles, past and present, including articles on the Walkerton water disaster and the Cochabamba water war.
- Palestine's 'Prayer for Rain': How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon of War
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Israel has been 'waging a water war' against Palestinians, according to Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah. The irony is that the water provided by "Mekorot' is actually Palestinian water, usurped from West Bank aquifers. While Israelis, including illegal West Bank settlements, use the vast majority of it, Palestinians are sold their own water back at high prices.
- Right To Water - Maude Barlow To Speak At Ontario Water Conference, May 4
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Maude Barlow to address water industry professionals at the Ontario Water Works Annual Conference & Trade Show, Monday May 4, Toronto Congress Centre, Dixon Road.
- Rivers of Dust: The Future of Water and the Middle East
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Syria and Iraq are at odds with Turkey over the Tigris-Euphrates. Egypt's relations with Sudan and Ethiopia over the Nile are tense. Jordan and the Palestinians accuse Israel of plundering river water to irrigate the Negev Desert and hogging most of the three aquifers that underlie the occupied West Bank. According to satellites that monitor climate, the Tigris-Euphrates basin, embracing Turkey, Syria, Iraq and western Iran, is losing water faster than any other area in the world, with the exception of Northern India.
- Rivers of Empire
Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
A history of the agribusinessmen and engineers who financed and built the system of damns, reservoirs, and canals which transformed the American West from a sparsely inhabited dry region to the site of massive farms and sprawling cities. Worster argues that control of scarce water resources gave rise to a capitalist/bureaucratic elite and to a modern day empire. This elite established and perpetuated itself on the backs of impoverished wage labourers. He criticizes the waste of water for swimming pools, casino fountains, and ill-suited crops like alfalfa, the depletion of aquifers, and the salinization of rivers. Worster points out the vengeance of nature in the form of the sedimentation and collapse of dozens of dams.
- Take Me to the Source
In Search of Water
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
Water is ubiquitous. This book exlores its structure, its forms, its flow, and the policies that govern its use. The architecture and wars that water management has spawned are discussed.
- Think California's drought is bad? Try Palestine's
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
While Israelis water their lawns, irrigate crops and swim in Olympic-sized pools, Palestinian communities a few kilometers away face drought and water scarcity issues. Their roughly equal proximity to water resources theoretically allows for equal consumption.
- Understanding Power
The Indispensable Chomsky
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. As he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change.
- Vanishing Lifeline
Water is essential, but Earth's growing population are draining supplies and wells are running dry.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Water supplies in the Middle East and north Africa are built on an environmental Ponzi scheme. The UN estimates that by 2025 two thirds of the world's population will face water shortages. Aid for the water shortage crises has drastically declined in the past decade as is seen as "unsexy" causes.
- Water as a Form of Social Control
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Whether in Palestine or Detroit, restricting access to water is a tactic used to deprive populations of personal and social agency with dire consequences to health.
- 'Water man of India' makes rivers flow again
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The revival of traditional rainwater harvesting has restored flow to rivers in India's driest state, Rajasthan - thanks to the tireless efforts of Rajendra Singh, recent winner of a Stockholm water prize.
- We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
- We Must Support Detroit's Fight for the Right to Water
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Detroit is shutting off water to 40% of residents to prepare the water system for a corporate buyout. Residents are organizing to resist the water shuttoffs, anti-democratic rule and the demands of Wall Street - but they need our help.
- When Water is a Commodity Instead of a Human Right
The Agony of Detroit
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The shutoff of water to thousands of Detroit residents, the proposed privatization of the water system and the diversion of the system’s revenue to banks are possible because the most basic human requirement, water, is becoming nothing more than a commodity.
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