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  • 10,000 protest at water summit
    22 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    About 10,000 protesters have marched in Mexico City, where 11,000 delegates and representatives met at the 4th World Water Forum to discuss ways to improve supplies for the poor.
    Opponents say that the seven-day forum, which began on Thursday, is a cover for privatisation.
    Participants from 121 countries, debated topics including the developing world’s growing reliance on bottled water bought from private companies, instead of on public water systems, which some call a form of (…)

  • Halliburton accused over Iraq water supplies
    24 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Julian Borger in Washington
    Halliburton, the vast Texan oil and military services corporation, was accused by former employees yesterday of supplying contaminated water to American troops and Iraqi civilians at a marine base in Ramadi.
    The claims by former employees, who gave evidence to Democratic senators yesterday, was backed up by internal Halliburton emails relating to the untreated water and the health problems it had caused in Camp Junction City, as the Ramadi base is called. (…)

  • Over 100 trucks await orders from FEMA to bring water to NOLA“They’ve got their thumbs up their ass"
    14 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Food Not Bombs volunteers from Prescott and Tucson serve their first meals to a group of FEMA-contracted truckers and refugees at the Baton Rouge convention center.
    After receiving word that over 100 truckers were sitting in a Target parking lot in east Baton Rouge, the AZ Food Not Bombs mobile kitchen showed up with several pots of beans, chili and rice.
    We spent a couple hours talking with the semi drivers, who were operating under FEMA to bring water and food into New Orleans - but, (…)

  • Where will the water come from?
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Amira Hass
    For about 10 years, Omar and Khaled of Khan Yunis - who until recently worked in the hothouses of the settlers in Muasi (Gush Katif) - "hitched a ride" on Israeli water statistics. While they worked in the hothouses, they could enjoy clean, clear water that flowed straight from the faucet, and to feel the tremendous difference when compared to the water awaiting them in the faucets at home.
    The 1.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip consume about 150 million cubic (…)

  • Iraqis suffer from contaminated drinking water, inadequate hospitals,power cuts and funding shortage
    18 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraqis suffer from contaminated drinking water, inadequate hospitals, power cuts and funding shortage, meanwhile the US is building itself permanent bases and ignoring billions of missing Iraqi money.
    Iraq blighted by poor services
    Two years since the fall of Baghdad, there is deep frustration among Iraqis at the state of public services.
    Stagnant water and litter on the streets of Baghdad Stagnant water lies on the street in Baghdad’s Sadr city There are continuing power cuts in much (…)

  • Water Loss, seed destruction - Saving the World’s Seeds - Dr. Vandana Shiva
    17 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thank you for joining us on Catalyst Radio.
    Would you start by talking about some general issues surrounding globalization.
    Dr. Vandana Shiva: Well those of use who are concerned about the globalization that has been contrived and yet made to look as if it is a natural evolutionary step, we are concerned about the injustice and undemocratic system on which it is based.
    And everything we said, fifteen years ago, when these rules were being put in place, very artificially, under GAT (…)

  • Iraq: Water Disappears As Election Nears
    23 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq: Water Disappears As Election Nears posted by river Saturday, January 22, 2005 It’s the third day of Eid. Eid is the Islamic holiday and usually it’s a time for families to get together, eat, drink and celebrate. Not this Eid. This Eid is unbearable. We managed a feeble gathering on the first day and no one was in a celebratory mood. There have been several explosions- some far and some near but even those aren’t as worrisome as the tension that seems to be growing on a daily basis. (…)

  • Denial Of Water To Iraqi Cities
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Daniel O’Huiginn and Alison Klevnas
    Introduction
    Water supplies to Tall Afar, Samarra and Fallujah have been cut off during US attacks in the past two months, affecting up to 750,000 civilians. This appears to form part of a deliberate US policy of denying water to the residents of cities under attack. If so, it has been adopted without a public debate, and without consulting Coalition partners. It is a serious breach of international humanitarian law, and is deepening Iraqi (…)