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17 Mar 2021 New YORK NY, United States
“If you don’t feed people, you feed conflict”: Guterres
Conflict reduces access to vital resources like water and electricity, and also drives hunger
4 Mar 2021 CUENCA, Ecuador
Ecuador City Votes To Ban Large-Scale Mining Projects
In the midst of February's presidential elections in Ecuador, residents of the country’s third-largest city, Cuenca, voted to ban future mining projects in five water systems.In a 7 February plebiscite, voters turned out to protect the region’s clean water resources. The area in which the ban covers is home to more than 580,000 residents and spans over 3,100 square kilometres of land...
10 Feb 2021 LIMA, Peru
Definitive Causal Linkages Will Support Milestone Climate Change Lawsuit
Researchers say they have confirmed linkages showing global warming is directly responsible for creating a “critical threat” of devastating flooding in the Peruvian Andes.The findings represent a critical piece of missing evidence for lawyers suing German power giant RWE on behalf of Saúl Luciano Lliuya, a farmer from Huaraz...
4 Feb 2021 HAMILTON, Canada
The Growing Threat Posed By Ageing Dams
The world's dam-building spree from 1930 to 1970 is catching up with some nations as they face the risks of a crumbling infrastructure exacerbated by climate change. "Ageing Water Storage Infrastructure: An Emerging Global Risk", a report published in January by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), identifies that most of the world’s 58,700 large dams were built during that period with a design life of 50 to 100 years, with 93 Percent of them located in just 25 countries...
21 Jan 2021 LIMA, Peru
Peru May Revoke Canadian Company’s Mining, Water Rights
Peru’s Ministry of Energy and Mines is currently working on a report to overrule Supreme Decrees which allowed Nuevo Arcoiris S.A.C, the Peruvian subsidiary of Canadian Tesoro Mineral Corpto acquire and hold mineral and other related exploration rights.The Supreme Decrees not only grant the company mineral rights but also several other related rights, including water rights...
11 Jan 2021 LA PAZ
Bolivia: Glacier Melt May Accelerate Capital's Water Shortages
Bolivia’s Tuni glacier is disappearing faster than initially anticipated, according to scientists in the Andean nation, a predicament that will likely make worse water shortages already plaguing the capital La Paz, just 60 km away. Scientists from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA), who monitor the Tuni and other regional glaciers, indicate that the once sprawling glacier had been reduced to just one square kilometer...
3 Jan 2021 EDMONTON
Christmas Oil Spill Hits North Saskatchewan River
Contaminated water that leaked from an oilfield pipeline on Christmas Day has entered the North Saskatchewan River but has had no detectable impact on it, says a spokesman for Calgary-based oil and gas producer ARC Resources Ltd. The leaked produced water flowed into an unnamed creek and then into the North Saskatchewan River, a glacier-fed major waterway that flows east through Edmonton and into central Saskatchewan, where it joins with the South Saskatchewan River and eventually flows into Hudson Bay...
3 Jan 2021 VITORIA
Brazil Approves License For Dam Disaster Mining Site
Samarco Mineração is set to resume operations at its Germano complex in Minas Gerais and Ubu complex in Espírito Santo, Brazil, after it met the licensing requirements. The company has commenced production of iron ore pellets. The operations were suspended following the failure of the Fundão tailings dam on 5 November 2015...