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• A news digest of recent water stories

  Bring on all the water news -- the good, the bad and the ugly 0

  Posted 6 days, 20 hours agoIt's not so unusual to see water stories topping the news these days. Even when that news is very bad, that's very good news indeed.

• Is There A Light of Hope Beneath the Mud?

  Salvadoran mudslides: A plea for climate change solutions and holistic water policy 1

  Posted 2 weeks, 2 days agoTorrents of mud and boulders flattened villages in El Salvador recently, leaving over 100 people dead and thousands homeless. From all indications, climate change will be most acutely felt in an escalating frequency and ferocity of floods and droughts. It’s chilling to think that we ought to expect much more of this kind of devastation in the coming years.

• A poke in the eye for corporate control

  Nobel Prize in economics a big boost to commons and blow to corporate control 1

  Posted 1 month, 2 weeks agoYou'll be hearing a lot about the "commons" for the next few days. It's about time. There are celebrations taking place around the world -- and not just by people, but maybe in the plant and animal kingdoms as well -- for Oslo's award of the Nobel Prize for Economics to Elinor Ostrom.

• Amigo, Can You Spare a BTU?

  Mexican peasants pay the price for U.S. energy consumption 3

  Posted 2 months, 1 week agoChances are, the average U.S. citizen has no idea that their demand for electricity might require that a Mexican village be flooded for a hydroelectric dam.

• World Water Forum wrap-up

  A right to rain 2

  Posted 5 months ago

  One man gathers rain to recharge groundwater reserves and another pushes salt water through a desalination plant for subsequent sale. Are these both viable solutions to the world’s water crisis?

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  Yes, I think it is and perhaps sick evidence is that in some places, there is hand wringing over rain water collection. that is, people with water rights are complaining that upstream folks are channeling water from their roofs, for example, into cisterns. In their mind, the rain water is THEIRS, not part of the commons to be available for all people and all of nature.On A right to rain posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago 2 Responses

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  Thanks so much for updating with the La Parota cancellation - or suspension as the authorities are trying to spin it. Great news. Good grassroots organizing combined with the dire economic picture can yield positive results for people and nature.On Mexican peasants pay the price for U.S. energy consumption posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago 3 Responses