Water inequality: As taps run dry, Mexican drought fuels anger over access
DIANA BAPTISTA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how strict rationing has left millions of Monterrey residents without tap water for hours or days at a time, fuelling long-standing anger over water concessions that favour big companies…
Indigenous people need a say on water rights, UN rapporteur urges
Stockholm, SwedenThomson Reuters Foundation Indigenous peoples from the Amazon to the Arctic are being left out of the global conversation on water property rights, a United Nations’ Indigenous rights expert warned last week. Speaking on the sidelines of an international conference on water in Stockholm, special rapporteur Victoria Tauli-Corpuz said Indigenous people needed to be […]
INDIA: IN DROUGHT-HIT DELHI, THE ‘HAVES’ GET LIMITLESS WATER, THE POOR FIGHT FOR EVERY DROP
MAYANK BHARDWAJ, of Reuters, reports on India’s water crisis…
African countries should ‘decolonise’ water, recognise customary rights – report
Thomson Reuters Foundation African governments should recognise customary rights to water for millions of small farmers who have been sidelined or “criminalised” by permit systems created during the colonial era, said a report published on Monday. Restrictive permit systems in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe have left more than 100 million people without […]