Water Justice News: Detroit

 

June 25, 2014 – 8:34am

VIDEO: Water is a Human Right: Detroit Residents Seek U.N. Intervention as City Shuts Off Taps to Thousands, Democracy Now! June 24, 2014. Blue Planet Project campaigner Meera Karunananthan interviewed at 50:24.
On June 18, t…

 

June 17, 2014 – 4:06pm
A report was submitted today to the Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation decrying the gross human rights violations taking place in Detroit where thousands have lost their water connections…

 

June 5, 2014 – 8:04am
The Detroit Free Press reports, “[In March, Detroit emergency manager Kevyn] Orr began exploring a public-private partnership to run the [Detroit Water and Sewerage] department. The city issued a request for information seeking p…

 

May 19, 2014 – 1:00pm
Photo from IPS.
The Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS) reports, “Maude Barlow, who represents both the Council of Canadians and Food and Water Watch, told IPS water is being increasingly and deliberately used a a weapon of wa…

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