Dwindling Fish Catch Could Leave a Billion Hungry

By Stephen Leahy
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 9 (IPS) – Fish catches are expected to decline dramatically in the world’s tropical regions because of climate change, but may increase in the north, said a new study published Thursday.
This mega-shift in ocean productivity from south to north over the next three to four decades will leave those most [...]

The Battle for the World’s Water Supplies: A Backgrounder

 Although 1.1 billion people lack access to drinking water and 2.4 billion are without adequate sanitation globally, governments have failed to implement a resource management system that can fulfil the universal human right to water. The March 2009 World Water Forum in Istanbul generated little progress in equitable water governance, recognising only that “access to [...]

L’eau jaillit des bornes fontaines dans la périphérie de Kinshasa

Sent by Isabelle Izika SND
- D’une population désespérée par l’oubli du gouvernement à des banlieusards contents de l’Union européenne
Kinshasa, – Dans le cadre de la lutte contre la pauvreté en République Démocratique du Congo, l’Union Européenne, U.E., avec ses  fonds propres a foré des puits et construit des fontaines qui approvisionnent en eau potable  [...]

Access to Water: A Human Right or a Human Need?

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At Jiftlik on the West Bank, Oxfam plans to build a reservoir connected to this four inch-pipe to increase the amount of water reaching the village’s 800 households. (Photo by Sarah-Eve Hammond courtesy Oxfam

ISTANBUL, Turkey, March 27, 2009 ([ENS) – Twenty countries have officially challenged the Ministerial Declaration released Sunday at the close of the [...]

Will dams on Amazon tributary wreak global havoc?

McClatchy News
Latin American correspondent Tyler Bridges on the potential damming of Brazil’s Amazon River.
By Tyler Bridges | McClatchy Newspapers | Photo Gallery
VOLTA GRANDE, Brazil — The Xingu River, the largest tributary of the Amazon, runs wide and swift this time of year. Its turquoise waters are home to some 600 species of fish, including several [...]

Sister Water or Blue Gold?

Seven Weeks of Water
Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water;
she is very useful, and humble,
and precious, and pure.
(From Canticle of the Sun by Saint Francis of Assisi)

Sister Water or Blue Gold?
At the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Ricardo Petrella, a professor, author, and water activist from Italy, reported that Nestlé and Coca Cola are [...]

ZIMBABWE: Researchers Developing New Ways to Purify Water

By Busani Bafana and Zahira Kharsany
BULAWAYO, Mar 25 (IPS) – Scientists at Bulawayo’s National University of Science and Technology (NUST) have embarked on research to develop simple and affordable water purification methods, as more than a billion people live without safe drinking water in developing countries.
Water and sanitation experts are currently investigating if a powder [...]

Noah – the first environmentalist with a water problem?

Ecumenical Water Network
Then the Lord said to Noah, ‘Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before me in this generation. (Genesis 7:1)
Noah – the first environmentalist with a water problem?
Water is a big issue and a question of justice. For some communities there [...]

No one owns water, it is God’s gift

“So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon. A Samaritan woman came to draw water and Jesus said to her, [...]

Water, symbol of our relationship with God

You trample on the poor
and force them to give you grain.
Therefore, though you have built stone mansions,
you will not live in them;
though you have planted lush vineyards,
you will not drink their wine.
Amos 5:11
Water, symbol of our relationship with God
Water is symbolic of our relationship with God, carrying the image of renewal, promise and hope. [...]