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1. 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 “Water March” in defence of water rights began in Cajamarca and ended in Lima. ...

2. 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.“The waters from those lagoons ...

3. ‘We can't save capitalism and save the planet’

   Frederick Engels. I was intrigued, for example, to learn from the book that Marx and Engels mentioned water ... pollution in The German Ideology. They wrote: “The ‘essence’ of the fish is its ‘being,’ water — to go no ... further than this one proposition. The ‘essence’ of the freshwater fish is the water of a river. “But the ...

4. Margaret River — Too Precious to Undermine

   threat to Margaret River's water supply. The coal beds sit beneath the Leederville aquifer. The ... aquifer in turn discharges water into the Margaret River and its tributaries. The coalmine would stomp all ... Leederville aquifer supply drinking water to three nearby towns: Margaret River, Cowaramup and Prevelly. ...

5. Gunns mill threatens forest devastation

   aerial spraying in domestic water catchments." The other major concern is that the supposed ... billion litres of water per year and that it will discharge 30 billion litres of effluent which contains ... in an area with limited water movement, where it can take up to 160 days for flushing of water to ...

6. PALESTINE: Closing the circle of our ghettoisation

   territory and provides access to the water reserves of the River Jordan. The hilltops yield control over ... water wells were stolen, and 20 shelters used for around 22,000 sheep and 500 camels were destroyed. ... denied access to infrastructure for water and electricity. In addition, villagers resist regular ...

7. Cochabamba challenges governor

   2000 the people stood up against the privatisation of their water supply, threw out the multinational ... Bechtel and retook control of the local water company. In October 2003 they joined the thousands of people ... privatising the city's water supply hence precipitating the Water Wars. He was a member of the last ...

8. A land of deep and abiding racism

   developing its Hope Downs iron ore mine. With 60% of the mine below the water table, a large dewatering ... and has the potential to dry out the spring. Rio Tinto's solution? Pump the high quality water ... (up to 110 megalitres per day) out of the water table, and replace the lost water to the spring via ...

9. Letters to the Editor

   put under the two-car driveway to collect grey water to nurture their water guzzling lawns." He ... also assumes that they will ride petrol guzzling 4WDs, waste hot water and the energy used to heat it, ... have solar power water heaters in every home, good free public transport, universal application of ...

10. Bhopal shows the poor a bleak future

    in such a way that, after the deadly gas leak began, the main safety system — water sprays intended ... to "knock down" a leak — could not spray water high enough to reach the escaping stream of ... burns (in a corrosive chemical sense, not a fire sense) when it combines with water — water in ...

11. Why we oppose Jabiluka uranium mining

    Resources of Australia (ERA), wanted to release 500,000 cubic metres of highly contaminated water from the ... to calculate the output of contaminated water over the life of the mine. ERA wants to treat the ... January, like every year for the past 15 years, ERA began releasing contaminated water into our wetlands. ...

12. A different view of the general's 'party'

    personnel carrier.... In every city, town and village, we went in to see if anybody had running water ... . There's no running water in the city of Baghdad... The minister of health said the single most important ... and urgent health problem in the country is bad water. Tens of thousands of people are getting sick ...

13. Gulf oil wells still a danger

    from Saudi Arabia may have removed as much as 2 million barrels from the water, and they are still ... the fact that pipelines were being used to bring in large quantities of water. Yet, plans to pipe in ... large quantities of water were factored into the original estimates of how long it would take to put out ...

14. How can one own the sky?

    no concept of ownership of land, water and sky." Since the 1940s, this area of Canada has been ... inflict on the water, flora and fauna. The low-flying jets create fumes which mix with the water; the Innu ... species, including water fowl and some birds of prey that are unique to this fragile arctic terrain, are ...

15. Venezuela offers Colombia landslide aid

    and infrastructure were toppled by muddy water and debris. “We’re brotherly people who are there to be ...

16. What would an ecological society look like — and how could we win it?

    transportation, sanitation facilities, clean water, clean air and so on. And we can't leave out access to ... care or decent housing or clean water, etc. are not met, forcing them to rely on mostly inadequate ... of the seas, pollution of air, water, soil and life, including people. According to a 2009 report of ...

17. Ecuador: From Marxist guerrilla to pro-Correa parliamentarian – the life of Rosa Mireya Cardenas

    would bite. They had placed cold water to drip on her head and had left a pack of dogs to attack her if ... she tried to get up. The days of electrocution, physical beatings and no food and water eventually ... that they used in Costa Rica — no food, no sleep, putting cold water and electrocuting me, they laughed ...

18. Vigils light the dark against cruelty

    begun turning off the water in Manus Island detention centre, leaving the men stranded and living in ...

19. 'No action' on gas companies’ tax rort slammed

    me," he said. "There are five offshore LNG projects and they're all in Commonwealth waters ... Project is also in Commonwealth waters, but it pays a royalty that is split between the Western Australian ...

20. Not much to celebrate in high court decision

    2017 1159 Malcolm Roberts, Scott Ludlum, Larissa Waters, Barnaby Joyce, Fiona Nash, Matt Canavan and ...

21. India: The unravelling of the disastrous Modi regime

    deprivation – lack of access to food, drinking water, sanitation and housing – combined with cruel exclusion ...

22. Santos faces avalanche of opposition to Narrabri gas project

    water treatment plans usually have to undergo a more rigorous examination, they are even more worried ... hydrocarbon residues. The impact of this waste water on soil is very dangerous. After a spill in 2011, tests ...

23. Austerity, Brexit and the Corbyn challenge

    utilities, charges for gas, water and electricity are also high. Factor in some of the highest transport ...

24. United States: Hundreds of protests oppose Dakota pipeline

    Oahe — the water source that is the focal point of protests. Construction of the behemoth 1172-mile ... movement will not allow the sacrifice of Indigenous rights, our water, or our climate.” [Reprinted from ...

25. Venezuela: Controversy and bloodshed mark start of election campaign

    waters in the lead up to the July 30 Constituent Assembly elections.  But the conflict in the country is ... offering that seeks to calm the waters inside and outside the country to stabilise the political process ...

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