Featured Water Justice Story Archives

Bending Towards Water Justice – ‘valuing’ water and World Water Day 2021

Quentin Grafton (Australian National University, Australia), Safa Fanaian (University of Oxford, UK), Gabriela Sacco (Institute for Global Dialogue and Culture of Encounter, Argentina) and Luis Liberman (Instituto Universitario del Agua y el Saneamiento, Argentina)...

‘Water security’: four myths and why we need a fit-for-purpose definition

By Kat Taylor, Water Justice Hub, Australian National University Australians say we want water security. But what is it? This simple term hides different meanings. Beneath the ‘water security’ rhetoric are water winners and water losers. As the climate dries,...

Guardians of the River

In this film by American Rivers and Swiftwater Films, Indigenous leaders share why removing four dams to restore a healthy Klamath River is critical for clean water, food sovereignty and justice. “This river is our umbilical cord. What feeds us, what nurtures us. This...

Dreams come true

A story 65,000-plus years in the making — the Nyikina Dreaming of Woonyoomboo — has been created in an interactive multimedia e-book for Nyikina young people before some locations are potentially damaged by development.Gooniyandi woman Helen Malo and Walmajarri man...

First Nations communities pursue clean drinking water through the courts

First Nations communities in Canada pursue clean drinking water through the courts. Find out more: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-first-nations-communities-pursue-clean-drinking-water-through-the/ Photo by Global Water Forum’s Flickr WARNINGS: These...

Meet the Aboriginal family fighting to save the Murray-Darling Basin

Meet the Aboriginal family fighting to save the Murray-Darling Basin. Watch the video on SBS: https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1820071491897/meet-the-aboriginal-family-fighting-to-save-the-murray-darling-basin Source: SBS WARNINGS: These stories may contain...