Each year on March 22nd the world turns their gaze to water, celebrating World Water Day. But for those suffering the daily injustices and indignities of life without access to the water they need to survive, to grow food, to exercise agency in all aspects of daily life, every day
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Better use of groundwater could transform Africa, research says
Better use of groundwater could transform Africa, research says Studies ‘debunk the myth that Africa is running out of water’ but say resource needs to be better managed. Read the Guardian article including research by FAME partner the Oakland Institute here!
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 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 reading“All This for a Drink of Water”: New Documentary Studies Water Injustices
Tunis – Fadil Aliriza One side of an old man’s face remains permanently limp and drooping as he speaks to documentary filmmaker Habib Ayeb, who is standing off camera. Wearing a rumpled and oversized gray formal jacket and a red-and-white patterned fabric around his head that they call a “Zunnar”
Continue readingCape Town’s Crisis-Ridden Response to Covid-19
By Greg Ruiters This contribution seeks to take a critical survey the responses of the City of Cape Town and social movements to the Covid-19 pandemic. The major hotspots for the virus have been in dense informal settlement areas with unreliable communal taps. The city provides additional emergency water services
Continue readingNew Packaging, Same Deal: City of Cape Town’s New Proposal to Replace Water Management Devices with the Drip System will further Water Apartheid
This piece is based on our submission on the City of Cape Town’s draft budget for 2021-2022, and focuses on the proposed revised approach to domestic water metering. An abridged version was published in the Daily Maverick, 10 May 2021. The City seems to have finally realised, after 15 years
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