Greta Thunberg Instagram – Week 308. This week, activists from all across the world gather in Melle, a village in France, to mobilise for water justice and against the construction of huge water reservoirs for irrigation, and other water-grabbing projects.
Constructions of mega-basins have accelerated in recent years partly as a result of the climate crisis and more intense and frequent droughts. But this is no way a solution. It happens at the expense of small-scale farmers as it decreases their access to water resources that are already over exploited, as well as destroys ecosystems.
This only digs us deeper into an already deeply flawed policy-system that benefits big agro-industrial interests representing a small minority of farmers, while ruining the environment and destabilising the climate.
This exploitation of freshwater all over the world – water privatisation, pollution and water grabbing – has exacerbated water scarcity, endangering countless people’s and communities’ lives and livelihoods.
While this ecological violence has led to conflicts and hardships to get access to decreasing water resources, it has also triggered resistance from movements and communities. For a long time people have been fighting to ensure everyone’s rights: environmental-, climate- and water justice.
Governments cannot ignore nor dissolve global movements of solidarity calling for international pressure, accountability and justice.
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#WaterIsLife #NoBassaran #BassinesNonMerci #WaterJustice #ClimateJusticeNow | Posted on 19/Jul/2024 15:04:52
