Environmental Justice

  By Shiney Varghese I live in Minneapolis where I have a 24-hour water supply. I take it for granted that I will have running water whenever I need it—for brushing my teeth,…

posted from People’s Water Forum After Mexico City 2006, which was an important milestone of the continuous work of the global movement for water justice, we have now gathered in…

  Original Text by: Prof. Stephen Bocking, Assistant Professor, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada Dams and National Pride Dams and International Aid Dams…

Dam construction has been for several decades an active industry, in both the industrialized and the developing world. In northern industrialized countries, such as Canada, the United States, Norway, Sweden, and the former Soviet Union, dams have been developed as important sources of hydroelectricity, as providers of irrigation water, or as instruments of regional economic development.

Original Text by: Prof. Stephen Bocking, Assistant Professor, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada Dams are about much more than just providing electricity or water. In societies…

Dams represent one of the strongest manifestations of the urge to dominate nature, regulate it, and turn it towards the uses of humanity. They epitomize the notion that it is appropriate, even necessary, for humans to assert control over nature: that a river can’t be allowed to exist free, following its own rhythm, but that humanity must control it, using technology.

Current global modes of production, consumption and trade have caused massive environmental destruction including global warming that is putting at risk our planet’s ecosystems and pushing human communities into disasters.

South China Morning Post By Shi Jiangtao in Beijing 2007-09-17 Beijing should take the blame for the embarrassing failure of its much-touted campaign to tackle widespread water pollution…

Shanghai Daily / national / 2007-09-17 The pollution in lakes in southwest China’s Yunnan Province, some of which have already seen several blue algae outbreaks, is actually getting…

  RTKH (Radio Television Hong Kong) / Greater China Reports from the mainland say waste water dumped by factories into a river in southwest China has poisoned and killed about 40,000…