San Miguel de Allende hosted a theoretical and practical workshop on the development of green infrastructure and rain gardens as an example of a nature-based solution. The event was convened by several local and national...
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Women and men from the rural community of Sachac, at more than 3500 meters above sea level, build a kilometer-long infiltration ditch to capture rainwater and use it to irrigate crops in Cuzco, in Peru’s Andes highlands. CREDIT: Janet Nina/IPS
12/22/2021
“When I was a little girl we didn’t suffer from water shortages like we do now. Today we are experiencing more droughts, our water sources are drying up and we cannot sit idly by,” Kely Quispe, a small farmer from the...
Transnational Corporations and Free Trade in Mexico
Caravan on the Social and Environmental Impacts
10/11/2021
This report presents the main results of the “Caravan on the social and environmental impacts of transnational corporations and free trade in Mexico” (#ToxiTourMexico), which took place in December 2019 with the...
08/18/2021
[Translation] A draft of the revised General Water Law was presented yesterday by members of the Senate Water Resources Commission, the Morena parliamentary group on the Environment, the PT fraction in the Chamber of...
Once the degraded land has made the first timid steps toward recuperation, it is planted with agave, one of the few plants that will flourish in such barren soil — and the plant will begin to replenish its fertility. Image courtesy of Alejandro Vasconcelos.
08/11/2021
- Land degradation is impacting farmlands worldwide, affecting almost 40% of the world’s population. Reversing that process and restoring these croplands and pastures to full productivity is a huge challenge facing...
Plastic bottles and bottle caps are among the most frequent items found along Mediterranean shores. Credit: Eleonora de Sabata / Clean Sea LIFE
07/01/2021
St David’s, Wales, Jul 1 2021 (IPS) - Documented images of albatross chicks and marine turtles dying slow deaths from eating plastic bags and other waste are being seared into our consciences. And yet our mass pollution...
04/29/2021
UNITED NATIONS - As the United Nations prepares for its solutions-based Global Food Systems Summit in September, officials say resolving issues around water scarcity, pollution and wastage is crucial transforming food...
04/05/2021
MEXICO CITY, Apr 5 2021 (IPS) - In neighbourhoods like Tehuixtitla in southern Mexico City, rain brings joy, because it provides water for showering, washing dishes and clothes, and cooking, by means of rainwater...
12/16/2020
On December 8, 2020, several media sources reported that fresh water started to be traded on Wall Street as a commodity such as gold and wheat. This comes as water scarcity is increasing in California and many parts of...
11/21/2020
In response to the lawsuits filed in 2019 by El Observatorio Ciudadano de los Sanmiguelenses AC and El Charco del Ingenio AC before the State Administrative Justice Tribunal, requesting that the integrity of the El Charco...
11/12/2020
Let's get to work...
How can we educate ourselves for action? In action itself. The gift of promoting actions and small sustainable changes - to achieve actions and big changes in the long term -...
10/02/2020
Small actions ... big changes …
They say that hope is a voluntary construction to start changing the world. And while many are in a "waiting" situation, there are others who have gone to work. They...
10/14/2020
Valuing is conserving…
In the epicenter of a watershed that has been overexploited to the maximum despite the warnings and exhaustive work of environmental groups such as CEDESA, El Charco del...
08/25/2020
After the thick neoliberal night of the last three decades, full of corruption and the handing over of the nation's public goods, it is urgently necessary to rescue and recover the material bases of the country: soils,...
07/16/2020
In Oaxaca's Mixe region, the community of Ayutla has been without potable tap water for three years.
On the dusty path between the natural spring and her home, Laura Morales hauled as much water as her...
04/23/2020
UNITED NATIONS, The UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), described as an integral part of its highly-...
03/26/2020
[Note] In a groundbreaking plebicite on March 22, 74% of Mexicali voters voted to halt construction of Constellation Brands brewery, a mega project in an arid region where water resources are under increasing...
03/27/2020
Disgruntled farmers torched 6 vehicles belonging to the National Guard and the National Water Commission (Conagua).
The National Water Commission (Conagua) announced on Thursday that it would not divert...
03/11/2020
Solving bad distribution and privatization and guaranteeing human access to this resource is necessary.
Palacio Legislativo, 11-03-2020 (Notilegis). Members of the parliamentary group, Partido del Trabajo...
02/05/2020
On February 4, 2020, at the opening of the fourth session of Mexico’s 64th legislative assembly, the first Citizen’s Law Initiative was presented before the Chamber of Deputies inaugurating citizen...
01/31/2020
The National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt) will issue a call in which rural and urban communities may request researchers and technologists to solve local problems including pollution, health and...
01/02/2020
The Regional Council of Original Peoples in Defense of the Territory of Puebla and Hidalgo will express to the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador a demand for cancellation of the Tuxpan-Tula gas pipeline on Saturday,...
12/10/2019
MEXICO CITY [translation] - Foreigners who participated in the # ToxiTourMéxico criticized the worrysome situation they witnessed in regard to environmental pollution resulting from from the industries established as part...
12/12/2019
A school in Queensland, Australia sent a note home to parents asking them to send their children with extra water bottles since its water supply has run dry, according to the...
11/07/2019
Council of Canadians Honorary Chairperson Maude Barlow was in Los Angeles yesterday to help celebrate the city’s designation as a Blue Community.
Los Angeles is now the first major city in the U.S. to turn “blue,”...