A Translocal Journey to Three Territories with Mining-Caused Water Problems
Join me on a brief journey to three places across Europe and Central America, all affected by mining and the interventions of extractive industries for decades. Find out what water problems mining has caused and what the different cases have in common!
Thirsty for Alternatives: recommoning water
In this section, I share the stories of Terrassa (Spain) and Naples (Italy), two mid to large sized cities that succeeded to remunicipalise their water utilities through bottom up mobilisations, and declare water as a common good.
Consultancy Firms and Their Globetrotting Ideas
There has been much talk about how private players, in other words, businesses, can provide services, build infrastructure and support governments in putting public policies into action.
A Chart of “The Mar Menor crisis: A Bric-a-brac antinarrative”
This piece traces the path have been illegitimately walking to constellate the stories weaved into “The Mar Menor crisis: A Bric-a-brac antinarrative”.
Travel in the brain of EU water actors: a place of chaos, dilemmas and emotions
The ecological and chemical status of water quality in Europe has been stagnating for the last two decades in the vast majority of member states, even though innovative and radical legislation for improving water quality was proposed by the European Commission in 2000, in the form of a Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC).
Transforming communal irrigation
A tale of two neighboring systems in Sierra del Segura (Spain).
