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The fight for Guanacaste’s water resources

3rd January 2015 Chapter 3 / Competing demands and water pollution

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Chapter 3

    • Chapter 3: The Water Crisis
  • Water as a right
    • The power that makes pitchers overflow and rivers flood their banks
  • The need for clean water
    • Infant mortality rates
    • Agua Para El Pueblo / Water For The People
    • Honduras: More Than 100 Children Died of Dengue During 2019
  • Access to water and sanitation
    • Population with access to improved drinking water sources and improved sanitation, 2006
    • A new definition of hope – community organisation for water in El Salvador
    • A Managua water project, 2011
    • World Bank water project
    • Access to water and sanitation
  • Privatisation and campaigns against it
    • Water privatisation protests in El Salvador
    • The Water Forum, El Salvador, 2013
    • Water safe from privatisation for now – El Salvador
    • The Mayan resistance to private concessions of rivers sees some light in Guatemala: Review of ‘Let’s Free Our Rivers’ by Madre Selva
    • La resistencia maya a la concesión privada de los ríos ve la luz en Guatemala: Revista de ‘Liberemos Nuestros Ríos’ por Madre Selva
    • Guatemala: teleSUR Correspondent Attacked By Men With Machetes
    • The privatization of water in El Salvador
  • Public-Public Partnerships (PUPs)
    • Major types of Public-Public Partnerships (PUPs)
  • Competing demands and water pollution
    • El Salvador urged to declare environmental health emergency in Jiquilisco Bay
    • Costa Rica’s water supply
    • The fight for Guanacaste’s water resources
    • Coca Cola’s ‘replenish’ goal
    • Water and Real Estate
  • Case studies – local communities and water
    • The Sorry History of the Chalillo Dam in Belize
    • IACHR: Human Rights Violations by the Chalillo Dam – 11 years on
    • “In all of Latin America there is resistance against dams” Gustavo Castro, ecologist
    • “En toda América Latina hay resistencia contra las represas” – Gustavo Castro, ecologista
    • International Human Rights Clinic submits brief addressing environmental and human rights violations in Belize
    • Marina Puesta Del Sol, Nicaragua
    • World Fish Migration Day – ‘BOOM’
    • Belize: Little Rain; Stagnant; polluted rivers; dengue
    • Guatemalan Water Defenders Celebrate Ten Years Of Resistance
    • Honduras: Guapinol 8 finally released

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