Defending Water for Life – for People and the Planet Defending Water for Life website redesigned
The Alliance is now redesigning our Defending Water for Life website and before long we’ll go “public.” This new website will focus on specific topics such as bottled water and plastic trash, privatization of municipal systems, investment (e.g., gambling) in water futures, and water contamination and the public health. All the articles we had at the previous site that focused on Maine, Washington, Oregon and California will now be tagged by topic and state and available through the search function..
With this new focus on topics, the Alliance will be able to focus more broadly on exposing corporate rule over our precious water sources, our public water infrastructure and how corporate CEOs and the Department of Defense enact policies that contaminate air, land and water, leaving we, the people to not just hold polluters accountable for clean-up, but suffer the impacts on our health and the environment.
ALERTS
Thursday, March 18 at 7 p.m. Eastern
Demand investigation of Nestlé´s big $$ deal with private equity firm
On Thursday, March 18 at 7 p.m. Eastern, front-line communities from across the country will be holding an online rally to demand legislators and regulators take a hard look at Nestlé´s sale of its North American operations to One Rock Capital Partners, a private equity firm.
The rally will feature speakers, music, and more. RSVP here, or tune into the livestream at Community Water Justice’s Facebook page or this page on the Story of Stuff website.
This $4b deal is the largest private transfer of water for bottling in U.S. history, and it also represents a dangerous trend—increased Wall Street speculation in water. We say “NO” to privatization, extraction, and environmental degradation, and “YES” to investment in badly-needed drinking water and sanitation infrastructure for the estimated 60 million people in this country without decent quality and affordable water.
Sunday, March 21 at 5 p.m. Eastern
Water Contamination and Public Health Webinar
 Learn more about how the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom is exposing Military Poisons, valuing water, and holding the military accountable on Sunday, March 21 at 5 p.m. Eastern. Register here in advance, as seating is limited to 100 registrants.
WILPF’s Earth Democracy Committee will host a webinar to introduce the newly redesigned Military Poisons website, which exposes connections between the military and PFAS contamination of our water, food, and bodies from PFAS and GENX firefighting foam.
This reformatted Military Poisons website will be a research tool for anyone wanting to learn more and ready to take action. Attendees will learn how to research military contamination sites in your state and region. You can also learn about the new PFAS and the Military project starting in Vermont from advocates and experts working on it. PFAS, a family of almost 4,700 chemical compounds of carbon and fluorine atoms that is one of the strongest in nature. That is why PFAS chemicals don't degrade easily; they stick around in the human body and the environment for a long time, and are very stable in water. That's why they are called "forever chemicals." And then there is another webinar...
Wednesday, March 24 at 11:30 a.m. Eastern
Water Financialization 101: Water Futures, Water Markets and Reclaiming the Water Commons
The Blue Planet Project, Food & Water Watch, the Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy and the Transnational Institute present a webinar about water futures and financialization on Wednesday March 24 at 11:30 am ET. Register here.
In December of the past year, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange launched the world's first water futures market, allowing investors to bet on the future price of water rights in California. This raised global alarms about the financialization of water resources and the threat of Wall Street speculation on water prices and scarcity. This webinar will provide an introduction to futures trading and water markets and discuss the implications for water activists around the world.
Speakers include Maude Barlow, Chair, Blue Planet Project and Food and Water Watch; Marcela López, Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Technische Universität Berlin; Anuradha Mittal, Executive Director, Oakland Institute; Emiliano Terán Mantovani, Observatorio de Ecologia Politica de Venezuela; Steve Suppan, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy; Shiney Varghese, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Moderator is Satoko Kishimoto, Transnational Institute.
You can read about how California farmers are skeptical about futures markets to solve real water shortages here. Safe affordable and sufficient water for personal and household IS A HUMAN RIGHT, not a profit center for hedge fund investors and speculators. The Alliance will be collaborating with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's Earth Democracy Committee on their new PFAS Project that will focus on four New England states: MA, ME, NH and VT. Soon we will publish our next edition of Justice Rising and while the topic is militarism, we will have articles touching on water and health. We will be increasing our spending on resources to get this message out and welcome your generous donations. Please forward this email to your family and friends with a note asking that they join the Alliance. Let's work together to end corporate rule to change the system. Thank you,
David Delk and Nancy Price, Co-chairs |
