IWRM and climate change
Deleting our rights, bracketing our future
Paul Quintos from Ibon international blogs from the UNCSD/Rio 20 preparatory meeting this week on the importance of a People's Summit at Rio+20.
Report from FAN’s participation at Bonn Climate Change Talks, June 2009
Analysis of of Water and Sanitation Policies and Status of IWRM in Africa
Convocatoria al Premio de Acciones de Agua y Adaptación en las Américas
FANMex invita a todos sus miembros y otras organizaciones de sociedad civil u organizaciones comunitarias a presentar sus trabajos al “Premio de Acciones de Agua y Adaptación en las Américas”. El objetivo es el de recopilar las acciones y experiencias locales y exitosas de adaptación al cambio climático en materia de agua en las Américas, así como las lecciones aprendidas a través de la implementación de éstas, y fomentar su réplica en otras partes del pais y del continente.
The politics of water in Uganda: today and tomorrow
In Uganda, where government has wholeheartedly embraced globalization as the way forward for development, water utilities are completely privatized. Unfortunately this has worsened corruption, degradation of ecosystems, excessive and careless consumption and wastage of water, contamination and salination of water bearings, aquifers and dams.
Carbon Credit trading: the case of Uganda
There is a growing phenomenon sweeping the poor countries: land grabbing. The World Bank estimates that in 2009 60 million hectares of land were purchased or leased in the poor countries.
Freshwater Action Network and End Water Poverty planning meeting report
In December 2011, FAN Global joined forces with End Water Poverty (EWP) for the first time to facilitate an international advocacy planning meeting for water and sanitation activists.
No water in the 'COP'.
It has been almost a week since I arrived in this middle class city of Durban, one of the most expensive place on this planet. While the fooprint is very visible here and there, lot of good things in town easily deviate your mind from that sad past. One of them is the good signal you read in your hotel room: TAP WATER IS SAFE TO BE DRUNK IN OUR CITY. What a good news. At least, here...
Videos: FAN representative speak from the Bonn Nexus conference
Watch FAN members speak their messages and their thoughts on the conference itself and their hopes going forward.
FAN members engage in COP17
FAN members Sena Alouka from Jeunes Volontaires pour l'Environnement in Lomé, Togo, and Rolando Castro from CEDARENA in Costa Rica are raising the importance of water issues in climate change at COP17 in Durban.
