Water Justice Stories

Democratic water governance to achieve a human right to water

By Gabriel Eckstein, Texas A&M University, USA. Ten years ago, the global community formally recognized a universal human right to water in a United Nations resolution. While a major milestone in the effort to secure adequate freshwater for all people globally,...

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The impacts of a changing climate on public health

By Dr Aparna Lal, the Australian National University Growing up in India in the 1980s, Dr Aparna Lal had access to running water for only two hours a day, and it wasn’t always clean.   At the time she didn’t even question this, until she moved to New Zealand...

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Bookarrarra Liyan Mardoowarra Booroo

  A water story by Dr Anne Poelina Kimberley Dr Anne Poelina is a Nyikina Warrwa Traditional Owner and a guardian of the Mardoowarra, Lower Fitzroy River in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Anne is the Managing Director of Madjulla Inc., Chair of the...

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Everyday Australians protecting the places we Love

A water story by Dr Anne Poelina Kimberley Dr Anne Poelina is a Nyikina Warrwa Traditional Owner and a guardian of the Mardoowarra, Lower Fitzroy River in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Anne is the Managing Director of Madjulla Inc., Chair of the...

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MARDOOWARRA – FITZROY RIVER

By Dr Anne Poelina, Nulungu Research Institute: University of Notre Dame Everyone who has an association with the river, whether Indigenous or not, talks about how important it is. It is the River of Life.[1] The Mardoowarra (Martuwarra or Fitzroy River) is an iconic,...

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