Reports

"Liquid Assets: Enron's Dip into Water Business Highlights Pitfalls of Privatization" demonstrates how Enron’s brief tenure in the water business highlights the many risks of water privatization: poor contract performance, political corruption and influence peddling, environmental violations, prospects of water commodification, and uncertainty about the financial stability of private contractors.

How the FDA is ignoring the potential dangers of unique chemicals found in irradiated food. Food & Water Watch is reproducing this report with Public Citizen’s permission.

This report details how the FDA legalized - and continues to legalize - food irradiation without testing for its safety.

This report was originally produced by the Food campaign of Public Citizen’s Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program. In November 2005, this campaign moved to Food & Water Watch, which is reproducing this report with Public Citizen’s permission.

This report documents the significant shortcomings of relying on corn-based ethanol as a policy panacea to fight global warming or reduce dependence on imported petroleum. Corn-based ethanol adds to the agrochemical burden on the land and water, fails to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and diverts water resources to ethanol refineries. With millions of lives in the balance, now is not the time to divert more corn from forks to fuel tanks.

La carne de Brasil puede tener buen sabor y un precio atractivo, pero los motivos para prohibir su importación a la Unión Europea están aumentando. A pesar del arancel de la UE de 176% a la carne brasileña, los productores ganaderos en Irlanda, Escocia, Gales, Italia y otras partes, dicen que la carne importada sigue siendo tan barata que amenaza con dejarlos en quiebra.

The Take Back the Tap campaign encourages consumers to switch from bottled water to the clean, safe and nearly free water that comes from their own taps — for the benefit of their own wallets, their health, their local economies and the environment. The United States has some of the cleanest drinking water in the world. However, many people still prefer to filter their tap water for reasons of flavor or to remove minerals and particulates. That’s why we’ve created this Home Water Filtration Guide — to help you get the most out of your water filter.