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The Big Splash – August 2024: announcing Claim Your Water Rights grantees
End Water Poverty (EWP) continues to support diverse civil society action at local and national level through the Claim Your Water Rights...
What next for the World Water Forum?
The 10th World Water Forum (WWF) took place from 18 to 24 of May in Bali, Indonesia. Five heads of state and various government officials...
EWP exchange: Using the media to inform, influence and empower
Traditional and social media are essential advocacy and accountability tools. Over the last four years members working on the Claim Your Water...
Free trade agreements: Corporate greed makes the right to water of Phichit villagers a distant reality
In Central Thailand’s Phichit province, a group of villagers resisted a gold mine that polluted their water and destroyed their livelihoods and...
March 2022 newsletter: Alana’s Dakar diary, expanding civic space, countering corporate capture & more
Alana's Dakar diary Members of End Water Poverty's delegation at FAME 2022. From left to right: Alana Potter (EWP), Jackson Mwenya (Vision...
CAMWATER: Do not give corporates (another) opportunity to control our water!
African Center for Advocacy (ACA) has called on the Cameroon Water Utilities (CAMWATER) and the Ministry of Water and Energy to take full...
Claim Your Water Rights: updated FAQs
1. What is Claim Your Water Rights? Claim Your Water Rights is a global public pressure campaign that aims to mobilise communities and civil...
How can we finance a future of safe water, sanitation and hygiene for all?
How much will it cost to achieve water and sanitation for all by 2030? Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an accelerating climate crisis and rising...
From service providers to rights-based advocates: the shifting strategies of civil society in Odisha, India
Drought, disease, dissolution, death - these are the stark realities of life without safe water. Quality of life, health, and hygiene largely...
Mobilising people to demand their water rights from duty-bearers in Zambia
To deny people the right to water is to deny them multiple rights, including education, food, and health. According to the 2018 Zambia...
Member in the Spotlight: Manushya Foundation | The community-led class action lawsuit fighting gold-mining in Phichit, Thailand
In central Thailand's Phichit and Phetchabun provinces, over 6,000 villagers are severely affected by the goldmining operations of Akara...
Global Handwashing Day 2020 | Handwashing in the time of Covid-19 and beyond: the demand is there, the means are not
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Surviving Covid: Government, Pay Your Water Bills!
Faced with the common threat of Covid-19, global citizens are tasked to forgo ideological, social, political and economic differences. Among...
Finance and Governance: Government, Pay Your Water Bills!
At 3pm on 25 August 2020, experts, human right advocates and concerned global citizens gathered to discuss issues relating to the provision of...