The Dominion JULY 30, 2008

Neskantaga First Nation is one of the communities profiled in the Polaris report. It has been under a boil water advisory since 1995. “What other community do you know of in Canada that has been on boil water advisory for 13 years?” (Keep reading…)

Washington Post
June 30, 2008

In Tokyo and Paris, you can now spend $5 a glass on special beverages selected by a professional sommelier. (Keep reading…)

The American Prospect May 27, 2008

Three scenarios collude toward disaster. Scenario one: The world is running out of freshwater. It is not just a question of finding the money to hook up the 2 billion people living in water-stressed regions of our world. Humanity is polluting, diverting, and depleting the Earth’s finite water resources at a dangerous and steadily increasing rate. The abuse and displacement of water is the ground-level equivalent of greenhouse-gas emissions and likely as great a cause of climate change. (Keep reading…)

Winnipeg Free Press May 23 at 12:40 AM CDT

OTTAWA — Water quality in aboriginal communities and reserves across the country has reached a “boiling point,” warns a new report released Thursday by the Polaris Institute, the Assembly of First Nations and the Canadian Labour Congress. (Keep reading…)

Wall Street Journal
May 3, 2008; Page

Last December, I got a taste of what golfers are likely to experience, if not quite so starkly, in the years ahead. I played a course in Georgia whose fairways, due to strict drought restrictions across the northern third of the state, hadn’t been watered in months. (Keep reading…)

Special to Globe and Mail Update May 2, 2008

In periods of changing climate, winners can quickly become losers — and vice-versa, especially when it comes to the ready availability of fresh water. In that regard, Alberta is emerging as the province to watch as the effects of anthropogenic global heating play out across Canada. (Keep reading…)

April, 27 2008 ZNet

South African neoliberal state brutality was on display last week in the famous Soweto suburb of Kliptown - where the African National Congress (ANC) “Freedom Charter” was signed 53 years ago - as the municipal-owned but commercially-oriented Johannesburg Water (JW) company felled a low-income resident with contaminated water. Cholera and E.coli scares spread across the city. Soon after, in nearby Lenasia, cops shot mercilessly at shackdwellers who were nonviolently protesting denial of water/sanitation services. (Keep reading…)

Globe and Mail February 6, 2008

The issue of how well protected Canada’s water is from bulk exports has always been hotly contested. (Keep reading…)

CCPA The Monitor July 2007

Canadian activists, who see themselves as stewards of the country´s abundant water resources, have been concerned since NAFTA was signed, fearing that it threatens our water. So it came as no surprise that, when early corporate schemes arose to allow the large-scale export of water from the Great Lakes and Newfoundland’s Lake Gismore, the Council of Canadians and other activist groups mounted campaigns which led provincial governments to ban the export of bulk water. (Keep reading…)