Water is considered a tool to exploit for producing energy allegedly having a lesser impact on climate. The “Millennium Goals” of guaranteeing access to drinking water for all the inhabitants of the planet through a market approach have been a complete failure. International movements for Water Justice demand to include the problem of water in the negotiation agenda of the Copenhagen Conference. continue… »

Water is a mirror of the human culture. The results of Copenhagen´s Conference could have fundamental effect on stopping adverse and risky trends of climatic changes on Planet Earth.

Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish in his “Memory for Forgetfulness” says about water”: Who says water has no colour, flavour of smell? Water does have a colour that reveals itself in the unfolding of thirst… And water has the flavour of water, and a fragrance that is the scent of the afternoon breeze blown from a field with full ears of wheat waving in a luminous expanse strewn like the flickering spots of light left by the wings of a small sparrow fluttering low”.

People and Water NGO encourages Slovaks to take advantage of their newly-minted democracy by organizing town meetings where citizens questioned officials about the legality of water usage. As result, in November 1996, the Environmental Ministry cancelled the dam proposal. It was Michal Kravcik, Chairman of People and Water NGO who showed how drinking reservoirs had not been used in full and how much water was wasted by an old and repair – needed distribution systems. His alternative plan outlined the repair of these problems while minimizing the impact on environment. continue… »

Water and vegetation are of primary importance for the global climate. Human activities cause large deforestation, desertification and urbanization rates of hundreds of square kilometers daily. Unsustainable land use causes huge impacts on vegetation, water and the climate. These effects are overlooked in the common climate change debate. A group of Slovak, Czech and German activists, the authors of this civic protocol, has decided to make its voice heard and to draw attention to this problem. continue… »