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Chile government faces backlash after U-turn on copper mine

Award-winning community group in Sumatra cleans up lake

Dhaka faces manifold problems as water bodies diminish

‘It gives life’: Philippine tribe fights to save a sacred river from a dam

A Guatemalan town fights to bar gold mining and save its waters

Colombian farmers turn deforested land into sustainable Amazonian farms

Drying wetlands and drought threaten water supplies in Kenya’s Kiambu County

Chile communities defy the desert by capturing increasingly scarce water

At the U.N. Water Conference, food security needs to take center stage (commentary)

‘During droughts, pivot to agroecology’: Q&A with soil expert at the World Agroforestry Centre

Herders turn to fishing in the desert amid severe drought, putting pressure on fish population

Reciprocal Water Agreements protect millions of hectares of Bolivian forest

Locals fight to save ‘a piece of the sea’ in Venezuela’s Andes

Threatened cloud forests key to billions of dollars worth of hydropower: Report

Five pressing questions for the future of lithium mining in Bolivia

Blue jeans: An iconic fashion item that’s costing the planet dearly

Sulawesi nickel plant coats nearby homes in toxic dust

Avocado farming is threatening Colombia’s natural water factory

“Largest of its kind” dam in Cameroon faces backlash from unimpressed fishmongers

Putting a price on water: Can commodification resolve a world water crisis?

Haiti: An island nation whose environmental troubles only begin with water

Latest water-sharing deal between Bangladesh, India is ‘drop in the ocean’

Climate change hits northern Mexico, as officials look to solve water crisis

Java communities rally as clock ticks on cleanup of ‘world’s dirtiest river’

Drought-beset South African city taps aquifer, shirks long-term solutions: Critics

Water-stressed Bangladesh looks to recharge its fast-depleting aquifers

Beyond boundaries: Earth’s water cycle is being bent to breaking point

Indigenous agroforestry dying of thirst amid a sea of avocados in Mexico

‘Water grab’: Big farm deals leave small farmers out to dry, study shows

In Bangladesh, a community comes together to save a life-giving forest

Better deep-bore wells aim to stop Indonesia’s groundwater waste

Freshwater planetary boundary “considerably” transgressed: New research

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