Just like the year preceding it, 2021 was marked by the Covid-19 pandemic and its severe health, economic and social consequences. In the face of a highly infectious and potentially deadly virus, the interrelated concepts of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) became the center of official preventive measures by international
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Water Struggles in Africa: Resistance and Alternatives to the Neoliberal Privatization of the Environmental Commons
Watch the recording here! The Alternative World Water Forum (FAME 2022) and the African Ecofeminist Collective would like to invite you to the first part of our virtual teach-in / webinar series titled “Water Struggles in Africa: Resistance and Alternatives to the Neoliberal Privatization of the Environmental Commons”. This session will be
Continue readingThe Real Value of Water: Valuing the Invaluable and the Threat of Pricing Water
What is the ‘value of water’? According to the World Water Day website (hosted by UN Water), “The value of water is about much more than its price — water has enormous and complex value for our households, culture, health, education, economics and the integrity of our natural environment.” The
Continue readingRuth Nyambura, African Ecofeminist Collective, talks FAME on the People’s Water Board Coalition #WaterWednesday Webcast
Ruth Nyambura of the African Ecofeminist Collective talks to the People’s Water Board Coalition (Detroit, Michigan) about FAME, struggles for water on the African continent and beyond.
Continue readingFAME 2022 Registration and Call For Contributions Now Open
On behalf of the local and regional organizing team, we are please to announce that Registration and the Call for Contributions for the 2022 Alternative World Water Forum (FAME in French), scheduled to take place in Dakar from 22nd to 25th March, is now open. Click here to learn more
Continue readingReport: South African Water Justice Roundtables
In 2018 and 2019, three Water Justice Roundtables took place in South Africa co-hosted by The Blue Planet Project, the African Water Commons Collective, the Surplus People Project, Tshintsha Amakhaya and the Environmental Monitoring Group. The Water Justice Roundtables (WJRTs) were a series of three workshops that met in South
Continue readingWhat fetching water costs the women of Nairobi
It is mostly women and girls who collect water for households in Kenya’s shack settlements. Along with taking time and physical effort, getting water is expensive and sometimes dangerous. By: Anindita Sarkar Illustrator: Anastasya Eliseeva Read the full article here!
Continue readingAutogestión, reclaiming the right to self-management of water
Twenty years after the Water War in Cochabamba (Bolivia), Marcela Olivera and Stefano Archidiacono reflect on “autogestión” of water as a practical and cultural dimension of the commons. A new piece for the series “Reimagining, remembering, and reclaiming water: from extractivism to commoning”. Read the full article here!
Continue readingThousands protest in Iran’s Isfahan to demand revival of river
Thousands of protesters have gathered in Isfahan in central Iran to demand the revival of a major river that has dried up. Footage broadcast by state television and dozens of videos circulating on social media on Friday showed a sea of farmers and other people standing on a huge barren
Continue readingNo New Water on Earth, Only New Battlegrounds
The Alternative World Water Forum – Forum Alternatif Mondial de l’Eau (FAME) in French — is part of a global movement for water justice. In March 2022, it is being organized for the first time in Africa. Here is some background information on the ways in which Africans and social
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