Reports

Costly Returns

The report, Costly Returns: How Corporations Could Profit From Inflating The Already High Cost Of Repairing The Nation’s Crumbling Water And Sewer Infrastructure, analyzed investor briefs by Boenning & Scattergood and reveals that, thanks to some fancy finance and accounting, private utilities tie higher earnings to increased costs.

Cargill: A Corporate Threat to Food and Farming

This report, Cargill: A Corporate Threat to Food and Farming, will show that Cargill’s vast influence on global agricultural trade threatens the health of consumers, family farmers, the environment, and even entire economies and governments.

Fish Story

After a series of safety scares about imported seafood in 2006 and 2007, U.S. consumers are recognizing that more than 80 percent, about 10.7 billion pounds of the seafood they eat, comes from outside the United States. Much of it is imported from Asia and Latin America, regions that have potentially unsafe production practices.

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Newsletters

Currents: May 2008

Akron, OH voter initiative aims to safeguard water resources; Take Back the Tap video contest winners announced; RWE unloads American Water on Wall Street; San Francisco restaurants pledge to part with bottled water; and more . . . Currents is our newsletter about water privatization, featuring community news, legislative updates and action alerts.

Defendamos los Bienes Comunes: Abril 2008

Defendamos los Bienes Comunes –– la revista internacional para activistas de Food & Water Watch provee información actualizada sobre las luchas en defensa del agua a través del mundo y las experiencias de comunidades que defiendan sus derechos al agua. La privatización deja a los Ghaneses sin agua; Nuevas Redes Europeas Fortalecen Esfuerzos; Nigeria desconecta el agua a los pobres; el derecho al agua referéndum en el Amazonas; y mucho mas.

Defend the Global Commons: April 2008

Food & Water Watch’s international activist magazine provides news updates from water struggles from around the world and communities defending the right to water. Read about: Privatization leaves Ghanaians with no water; Nigeria disconnects water to the poor;The 5th World Water Forum in Turkey; the right to water referendum in the Amazon; and much more.

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