Introduction “This is the time for Africa to harness its huge hydro-energy potential” stated former AfDB (African Development Bank) President D. Kaberuka, in 2007. Undeniably, the African continent is currently experiencing an unprecedented upsurge of large-scale hydropower projects within its major river basins largely funded by international donors, such as
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The Covid-19-water-service-provision nexus: Structural problems and transformative potential in times of crisis – the case of Lagos, Nigeria
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
Continue readingWater 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 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 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 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
Continue readingReport: Womn + Water in Africa: An Overview of Water Justice Struggles
Access to clean water is a basic human right but one that is denied to millions of poor communities across Africa. This research commissioned by the Urgent Action Fund- Africa (UAF-Africa) underlines how it is womn who bear the brunt of lack of water and how this has an impact
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”
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