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Changing the Flow: Water Movements in Latin America

2009-05-01

In case after case around the world, water has been turned into a profit-making commodity – preventing access to the most essential element on Earth. Pollution, corporate takeover, and the mismanagement of water ecosystems have resulted in dire water poverty and scarcity in many parts of the world. Private ownership of water and water-delivery systems does not resolve, but rather, compounds the longstanding and deep-seated abuse, neglect, mismanagement, and exploitation of water.

Dried Up, Sold Out

2009-03-10

Dried Up, Sold Out: How the World Bank’s Push for Private Water Harms the Poor – Most people in the United States are accustomed to turning on the faucet and seeing safe and healthful water stream forth. But take a trip into the developing world, and one often finds that the tap is dry. Indeed, literally billions of people in developing countries have no access to water and sewer services. And for those who do, the quality ranges from poor to downright dangerous.

Money Down the Drain

2009-02-24

Greedy multinational corporations are after your water. If you don’t stop them, it could cost you a lot of money. Privateers may be creeping around your town hall. Your town is sitting on a gold mine: your water supply. Corporate executives know this and may be trying to weasel control of YOUR water from your city or town.

All Bottled Up: Nestlé’s Pursuit of Community Water

2009-01-12

Inside Food & Water Watch's report, All Bottled Up: Nestlé’s Pursuit of Community Water, find information about: Nestlé, profits, groundwater, purity, health and safety, Arrowhead, PureLife, Calistoga, Deer Park, Zephyrhills, Poland Spring, Ozarka, Perrier; Wells, Maine; McCloud, California; the Dells, Wisconsin; Shapleigh, Maine; aquifer; Mary Taylor; Jamilla El-Shafei; plastic bottles, plastic pollution, trash, landfills, toxic gas and ash

Blue Covenant: U.S. Book Tour

2008-02-10

Food & Water Watch is proud to present Maude Barlow and Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water –– 2008 U.S. Book Tour

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