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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 12d

Welcome to the Blue Community, the global network of Blue Communities. For more information, join in, follow us and visit blue-community.net

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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 3h

BLUE NEWS DIGEST October 2025
Update Thursday, October 9
Every day the most important headlines on water and sanitation from around the world, compiled by the Blue Community Network, defending water as a common, public good and a human right.
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 7h

Eau de Paris: One more Fountain
The Blue Community / Blue City of Paris with its public water service Eau de Paris has installed a new fountain at La Mie de Pain.
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 8h

UN Human Rights Council on SRWatSan
The UN Human Rights Council concludes its Sixtieth Regular Session after Adopting 35 Resolutions, One Decision and One President’s Statement.
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 1d

Time travel: Blue Community co-founder Maude Barlow 2010 on “The End of Water?”. A 22 minutes on the global water crisis in “The smartest people – the biggest ideas”.
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 1d

BLUE NEWS DIGEST October 2025
Update Wednesday, October 8
Every day the most important headlines on water and sanitation from around the world, compiled by the Blue Community Network, defending water as a common, public good and a human right.
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 1d

Gold Demand Kills Peru’s Amazon
As gold prices hover at record highs, a leading Catholic leader in Peru’s Amazon is urging countries that are destinations for the precious metal to help stem illegal mining that is poisoning rivers with mercury.
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 1d

From Lodomo Timoo, Coordinator of the Blue Community PWHR – Pokot Women Health Right:
Water Realities in West Pokot, Kenya
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 1d

‘We are Water, we are Life, we are Hope’
At the Amazon Water Summit in Iquitos, nearly 400 delegates highlighted the indifference and insensitivity of governments towards serious river pollution, organised crime and the murder of water defenders.
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 1d

Who Really Controls Our Water?
This JustWaterFutures Event explored the financialisation of water through water funds and their implications for community and public control.
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 1d

Garden Project in Dogonland
The Swiss Blue Community Kene Elou Te (formerly RadioChico) is raising funds for a project of its Mali partner, the Blue Community Réseau Ecole RadioChico RERC, to build a fountain to feed the garden.
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 2d

Medair Switzerland turns blue
With its Global Support Offices near Geneva, Switzerland, Medair was designated a Blue Community. We welcome Medair as a global relief organisation in our global network.
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 2d

Blue Community - the global network of cities, universities, water services, schools, church parishes, trade unions, NGO... standing together for the human right to water and sanitation, against pollution and profiteering.
Make a difference. Join in!
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 2d

BLUE NEWS DIGEST October 2025
Update Tuesday, October 7
Every day the most important headlines on water and sanitation from around the world, compiled by the Blue Community Network, defending water as a common, public good and a human right.
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 3d

The Blue Community Jeevan Rekha Parishad – Lifeline Council from Odisha, India, is looking for donors to realize this project:
Ensuring access to safe drinking water for Iron/Fluoride Contaminated Villages of Daspalla Block, Nayagarh District, Odisha.
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 3d

BLUE NEWS DIGEST October 2025
Update Monday, October 6
Every day the most important headlines on water and sanitation from around the world, compiled by the Blue Community Network, defending water as a common, public good and a human right.
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 4d

BLUE NEWS DIGEST October 2025
Update Sunday, October 5
Every day the most important headlines on water and sanitation from around the world, compiled by the Blue Community Network, defending water as a common, public good and a human right.
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 4d

From the Kenyan Blue Community KYWP – Kisumu Youth WASH Parliament:
We joined stakeholders in reviewing and validating the Kisumu County Water Policy.
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 4d

From the Blue Community EYATH S.A., the public water service of Thessaloniki, Greece:
Another Historic Fountain Restored
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 4d

The *Blue Community* is a network of institutions and organisations for the human right to water and sanitation. We campaign for water as a public good, oppose privatisation and strive to ensure that everyone has access to safe drinking water.
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 4d

The Blue Community Peace Point Development Foundation (PPDF) in Nigeria is in the news:
Akwa Ibom, Cross River Fishing Communities Embrace Community Rights Defender Project.
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 5d

The German Blue Community / Blue City of Büdingen gets its first drinking fountain. It can be found on the market square. As well as drawing attention to Büdingen’s tap water, it also serves as a measure for climate adaptation.
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 5d

BLUE NEWS DIGEST October 2025
Update Saturday, October 4
Every day the most important headlines on water and sanitation from around the world, compiled by the Blue Community Network, defending water as a common, public good and a human right.
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 5d

Water Paradise in Blue City Dietikon
The city has presented plans for the new playground.
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 5d

Switzerland: Blue Churches Joining
On the way to becoming a Blue Community: The Reformed parishes of Dietikon, Schlieren and Weiningen
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 6d

BLUE NEWS DIGEST October 2025
Update Friday, October 3
Every day the most important headlines on water and sanitation from around the world, compiled by the Blue Community Network, defending water as a common, public good and a human right.
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