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  1. Peru's climate crisis ahead of UN gathering

    climate related disasters.鈥 Already, as the glacial run-off dwindles, water reserves in Lima (a coastal ... desert city totally dependent on mountain water) are coming under growing pressure. A study on drinking ... water by the US-based National Academy of Sciences found: 鈥淎bout one in four Lima residents have no ...

  2. Peru: Anti-mining protests erupt before poll

    south-eastern Peru, where precious water supplies have been diverted to mining at the expense of farmers, is ... Development (SED), as 鈥淪outh America鈥檚 most water-stressed country鈥. SED said: 鈥Water draining from the Andean ... highlands... serves as a water tower that supports 鈥 agricultural activities.鈥 Glacier melt due to climate ...

  3. Peru: Protests force cancellation of mining project

    contaminate local water, the residents of Islay took to the streets, despite realising it would put their ...

  4. There used to be snow

    for the crops Where will they go They who work the land When all the ancestral waters Have vanished in ...

  5. APEC: road show of the 'new world order'

    David T. Rowlands Three-metre high security fences, heart-stopping tasers, a bone-smashing water ... ($600,000), lumbering, 12,000-litre water cannon aimed at anyone who dares to be on the street during the APEC ... sectors of the US economy. Chemical irritants, stun guns, crowd barriers and a water cannon are tools of ...

  6. Peru: Community rises up against mining giant

    home to an agricultural population that relies on the natural highland water system. Destroying this ... mining company claims, that artificial reservoirs could supply local water needs, this would place the ... 2012: A national 鈥Water March鈥 in defence of water rights began in Cajamarca and ended in Lima. ...

  7. Peru: Fresh protests against Conga mega-mine break out

    the local population. The rural communities that rely on the water from these lakes have rejected the ... resources, as precious as life itself for the communities who depend on these natural waters for their entire ... which the rank-and-file explain their position belies this absurd claim.鈥淭he waters from those lagoons ...

  8. Peru: BHP spill devastates community

    poorest and most neglected regions in the Andes. In Cajacuy, there is neither sewage nor running water ... exposing themselves to health risks in the process, or their lands and water supplies may be contaminated ...

  9. Conga no way!

    of sacred waters A vanguard has arisen Winning drop by drop Winning slowly but surely United the ...

  10. Peru: Mining protesters killed in crackdown

    taken his first presidential steps into the river of blood which waters the Peruvian political cycle. ... agricultural water into dumps for toxic mining by-products. Having already established itself as one of the ...

  11. Peru: Mine probe test for Humala

    methods were cheap, primitive and highly toxic. When livestock began dying after drinking local water ... previously-pristine waters. An environmental monitoring study conducted by Germany's Christian Albrecht ...

  12. The Titanic: class war on the high seas

    condensed into a few tragic and injustice-filled hours. With the ship taking water fast, access to lifeboats ... like Gracie, were flung into the water near an upturned lifeboat, which they commandeered. The rest ...

  13. EITI: A transparently inadequate initiative

    gallons of water a month and dumps toxic waste into the Ajkwa river, eliminating all plant life along its ... banks and polluting drinking water. Yet the company can claim on its website: 鈥淩io Tinto has expressly ...

  14. Peru: Mining conflict heats up

    Quilish, the source of much of Cajamarca鈥檚 drinking water. In 2000, a Yanococha truck spilled 150 kilograms ... water network that supports thousands of small farming families will face certain contamination as four ...

  15. Peru: Gov't resumes mining offensive over popular opposition

    solidarity in these life-and-death struggles for communities whose land and water resources are under threat, ... Territory, Water, Life and Sovereignty鈥. Many placards expressing pro-environmental and pro-social justice ...

  16. CSG lobby welcomes fall of O鈥橣arrell

    lucrative contracts to Australian Water Holdings (AWH). Conceivably, he could have stonewalled that ...

  17. Peru: Poll swings left in first round

    necessities such as adequate health care or running water. Compounding the problem of indigenous poverty ...

  18. Peru: Blood for rubber, blood for oil

    off their ears, fingers, arms and legs; that they torture them by means of fire, of water, and by ...

  19. El Salvador: Evangelical fundamentalism and the right

    reversal of the privatisation of water, education and health services. June 28, 2009 800 World ...

  20. Greece: A tradition of revolt

    regime. Standing united on the barricades against tanks and water cannons, the students proved themselves ...

  21. Peru: An encounter with Tintaya

    waste reservoirs into local streams and groundwater. Local inhabitants complained of contaminated water ...

  22. Threat to Barangaroo same as Turkey's Gezi

    rights over critical water supplies). With discontent brewing, matters came to a head in May and June of ...