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 Water Advocates is a U.S. based nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing American support for worldwide access to safe, affordable and sustainable supplies of drinking water and adequate sanitation.  Women Land and Water Rights in Southern Africa is a regional organisation founded in 2002 and registered in 2003 under a Deed of Trust in Zimbabwe. The organisation was established to advocate for women's land rights at national and regional levels, to enhance their contribution to food security and sustainable livelihoods...
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 The Water Barons is a fascinating collection of articles from the Center for Public Integrity concernng freshwater developments worldwide....Photo source/South End Press  In Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit author Vandana Shiva, "the world's most prominent radical scientist" (the Guardian), shines a light on activists who are fighting corporate maneuvers to convert this life-sustaining resource into more gold for the elites...
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SourceCode Episode 4: Water
The Water Front Movie: When water costs soar, residents of Highland Park, Michigan demand to know who will foot the bill.
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Chapter 2 - Wherein the natives become alarmed at the proposal:
480 formal protests to the Augustin Plains Ranch LLC Application #RG-89943 were filed at the State Engineer’s Office. David Anderson has sent them to the OSE Litigation Unit in Santa Fe. It could take up to a year before a hearing date is set. The Catron County Water Coalition has set up a web site at <http://www.catroncounty.net/water/index.htm> to keep residents informed of the progress of this and other applications through the bowels of the New Mexico Legal System. Meanwhile, I’ve read Robert Glennon’s “Water Follies”, Vandana Shiva’s “Water Wars” and Paul Hawken’s “Blessed Unrest”. All are now on the “required reading list” for Catron and Socorro county residents. All three books indicate that we’re handling this situation in the correct manner: we’re becoming informed, we are organizing and we’re asking questions. My recent Google of “Augustin Plains Ranch” has provided enough information to start building an organizational chart of the key players in this scheme. From “Blessed Unrest”: The Earth is not dying----it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses. —U. Utah Phillips I’ll “cut and paste” this anywhere! Watch here for “Chapter 3". |
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Here is a “local” water problem, yet to be set in motion, which might serve as a good test case for a review of legal and activist organization: an application has been filed at the New Mexico State Engineer’s Office by Augustin Plains Ranch LLC to drill 37 water wells on their land with 20 inch casings to a depth of 2,000 feet. 17.5 Billions of gallons of water a year would be pumped to the surface, then piped 120 miles to the Rio Grande at Elephant Butte and sold to, well, the highest bidder. Now, it just seems to me that this would put the Village of Magdalena’s water supply which logs in at about 42 Million gallons a year at great risk. I’ve just begun researching the formation and extent of the aquifer and the legality of such an endeavor, writing letters to our local paper and organizing a watch group over the application. This is a classic case of greed for profit vs. the limited and precious water resources in our drought stricken and sparsely populated area. Any suggestions, resources, or just moral support would be greatly appreciated!
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Chapter 1: Solving Global Water Crises and Restoring the Environment with Ecological Engineering. The Coming Wars over Water?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The color photographs for this chapter in the book "Solving Global Water Crises: New Paradigms in Wastewater and Water Treatment" are posted at the site for user "watercrises" (Jo-Shing Yang). An introductory discussion of water rights and the politics of water is presented in this chapter. |
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Would like to connect here with another project <a href="http://TheWaterFrontMovie.org">TheWaterFrontMovie.org</a>
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As the story lines widens and deepens, what happens with this information and how it is used by the Market Maniacs will be important to track. How these concerns will play out in the governments around the world and how multi-nationals will use drought for their advantage in all those seats of government is where effort will be needed to help local citizen, farmers organize to keep water as a commons.
I think this page might be reconsidered, making it a more pro-active portal. For example if water rights was framed more specifically, my example of drought being one and showing how it is being used as a tool for decision making - and giving example of it, might be more concrete in driving home ideas and solutions that need to be implemented.
Some of those solutions already exist within WE by groups and organizations listed in WE, how to get people to them from this page is the question?