Reports

The Push for Water and Justice in South Africa

The poorest people of Johannesburg, South Africa saw some measure of hope with a judicial reaffirmation of the country’s constitutional right to water in April 2008. However, their fight is not over because the powers arrayed against them have appealed the decision.

What’s Behind the Global Food Crisis?

The 2008 global food crisis is compromising the survival of 860 million undernourished people and threatens to push a hundred million people into extreme poverty, erasing all of the gains made in eradicating poverty in the last decade. Record high prices have put food out of reach for the poorest people in the developing world, many of whom already spend more than half their income on food. Growing food insecurity is undermining tenuous civil stability in at least 33 countries, about one sixth of United Nations member countries.

Costly Returns

Costly Returns: How Corporations Could Profit from Inflating the Already High Cost of Repairing the Nation’s Crumbling Water and Sewer Infrastructure

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Newsletters

Currents: September 2008

Florida: Beating Back the Bottlers, Citizens Initiative to Appear on Akron Ballot, FLOW Coming to a Theater Near You, A Good Year for Water in the California Legislature, Food & Water Watch Makes a Splash at Slow Food Nation

Food Alert: Summer 2008

The Battle Over Milk Labels, At Long Last... The 2007 Farm Bill Is Passed, Congress Under Pressure to Lift Ban on Chinese Poultry, What's Behind the Global Food Crisis? Tell USDA: Children Deserve Safe Milk

Currents: July 2008

Nestlé Plan on Hold in Southern Maine, California Governor Aims to Derail Bottled Water Bill, What's Lurking in Your Soap?, Don't Fall for Corporate Spin: Bottled Water Brings Few Jobs... Currents is our newsletter about water privatization, featuring community news, legislative updates and action alerts.

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