By DEE AYROSO
Blood in our water
Tags: water crisis
Street Shooter: Queuing for Water
Queuing for Water
News in Pictures: Group Slams Worsening Water Crisis, Privatization
Members of the group under the Water for the People Network (WPN) trooped to the office of the Metropolitian Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) to urge the agency to immediately address the current water crisis in Metro Manila. They said that the failure of MWSS to ensure the provision of clean, adequate and affordable water supply and service in the region is due to privatization.
News in Pictures: Pila Balde
Long lines of empty buckets and drums snake along Barangay Commonwealth streets in Quezon City, as frustrated residents wait their turn at commercial deep wells. Many areas of Metro Manila have been without water for nearly a week already.
Green Groups Blame Privatization of Natural Resources as Real Cause of Water and Energy Crises
Press Release 3 March 2010 Indigenous peoples, scientists and environmental activists demand the cancellation of water permits of large-scale mining corporations and foreign energy operators in the country in a protest action in front of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). The action was timed during the 15th anniversary of the passing of…
Tribal Folk Oppose Laiban Dam Project, Slams ‘Connivance’ Between MWSS, San Miguel
By LYN V. RAMO
Katribu accused the MWSS and San Miguel of drumbeating a “water crisis” to justify the dam construction. “It misleads the public into thinking that the solution to the water crisis is to build a large dam. In doing so, it places indigenous peoples in a vulnerable position,” the group said.?