Environment

Towards World Water Justice: Some Practical Steps Towards Equitable and Sustainable Water

Large sections of the civil society are opposed to the current paradigm propagated by the international water establishment. This paradigm, through its promotion of multinational led privatization and supply-oriented water management strategies in general, will further worsen the condition of water-poor peoples and of the ecosystem.

Water Note #3: A Fact Sheet on Water Privatization

Up until the 1990s, water and sewerage services in most countries were a state/public responsibility. It was only in the 1990s that multinational led water privatization increased along with infrastructure privatization in general in the developing world.

A Fertilizer That Contaminates

Ironite is one fertilizer that bills itself as a "natural soil supplement . . . popular choice for home, lawn and garden for 43 years. Nothing greens like Ironite. Will not burn." Ironite is made from a 60 acre pile of mine tailings located at a Superfund-nominate site. Testing by state agencies in Washington and Minnesota in 1998 and 1999 found dangerously high levels of arsenic and lead.

Fishing Opener Raises Questions About Polluted Fish

Minnesota's annual Walleye fishing opener this Saturday should be a wake-up call for the urgent need to reduce mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants and other top industrial sources, says the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, the Sierra Club and Clean Water Action Alliance.

USGS Study Finds Antibiotics in 48 Percent of Streams Tested in 30 States

Press release on a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey that reports that antibiotics are found in 48 percent of 139 streams in 30 states.