Groundwater 2024: India’s Top ten Actions https://blue-community.net/2025/02/14/groundwater-2024-indias-top-ten-actions/
Aqua Urbanica: Urban Rainwater Management The Swiss Blue Community VSA (Association of Swiss Wastewater and Water Protection Professionals), announces the Aqua Urbanica Water Congress in Rapperswil, Switzerland, 22/23 September 2025. https://blue-community.net/2025/03/01/aqua-urbanica-urban-rainwater-management/
Canada: First Nation in Yukon ‘deeply concerned’ over leaking mine site. The chief of First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun is raising the alarm over a storage pond leak at the Eagle Gold mine, something she fears could impact aquatic life. https://blue-community.net/2025/02/28/canada-leaking-mine-site-in-yukon/
India: Action Plan for Yamuna in Delhi https://blue-community.net/2025/02/28/india-action-plan-for-yamuna-in-delhi/
Sudan cholera outbreak kills 70 people in one week. At least 70 people have died from cholera and more than 2,200 others have been infected in southern Sudan over the past week. https://blue-community.net/2025/02/28/sudan-cholera-outbreak-kills-70-people/
Blue Community & Soidarit’eau Suisse: VSA fees for water projects in the Global South. https://blue-community.net/2025/02/28/fees-for-water-projects-in-the-global-south/
South Africa: Ekurhuleni’s unemptied toilets — a health and human rights crisis. https://blue-community.net/2025/02/28/south-africa-toilets-still-unemptied/
Deep Groundwater: A Sustainable Solution? Scientists are finding fresh groundwater buried deep underground, but questions remain about the scale of these resources, how they’re resupplied, and whether they can be used sustainably. https://blue-community.net/2025/03/02/deep-groundwater-a-sustainable-solution/
Lithium in Bolivia: What is behind the contracts signed by the government with Chinese and Russian companies? https://blue-community.net/2025/02/27/bolivia-opposition-to-lithium-contracts/
Italian Islands: Water Goes On Vacation Article by Monica Fur, Alice Pistolesi for Il Manifesto https://blue-community.net/2025/02/27/italy-water-goes-on-vacation/
Santa Fe, New Mexico: Senate passes bill to take over water regulation in party-line vote. https://blue-community.net/2025/02/27/new-mexico-bill-for-water-regulation/
News from 'Save the Caspian Sea' Persian photojournalist and lens-based artist Khashayar Javanmardi as an official ambassador of the campaign. https://blue-community.net/2025/02/27/news-from-save-the-caspian-sea/ @savethecaspian
Warming Groundwater Affects Millions – Not Only Humans. https://blue-community.net/2025/02/24/warming-groundwater-affects-millions/
Making Money with the Water Crisis Market Outlook: Growth Opportunities In PFAS Water And Wastewater Treatment (2024-2031). https://blue-community.net/2025/02/25/making-money-with-the-water-crisis/
From the German Blue Community / Blue City of Büdingen: Open day for World Water Day 2025 at Stadtwerke Büdingen. https://blue-community.net/2025/02/27/blue-community-budingen-world-water-day/
Western Australia: Documents reveal Water Corp had serious concerns about Alcoa mining contaminating drinking water. https://blue-community.net/2025/02/27/western-australia-concerns-about-mining/
Nigeria: Shell Oil Spill Affects Water Bayelsa community suffers water shortage after crude oil spill from Shell facility. https://blue-community.net/2025/02/24/nigeria-shell-oil-spill-affects-water/
Uganda: Kiné-Fatim Diop calls for urgent action to ensure universal access to water and sanitation. https://blue-community.net/2025/02/24/universal-access-to-wash-accross-africa/
Labor shortage could threaten Texas water supply. Texas’ water supply — and the state’s economic growth — could be endangered by a worsening shortage of workers in water and wastewater utilities, per a new report. https://blue-community.net/2025/02/24/labor-shortage-to-threaten-water-supply/
‘We used to think the ice was eternal’: Colombia looks to a future without glaciers. In Sierra Nevada del Cocuy, people have watched the ice fields turn to exposed rock and experts predict these vital water sources could be lost in 30 years. https://blue-community.net/2025/02/27/colombia-future-without-glaciers/