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Hello (water)world!
What began as a simple idea of cooperation between two water-concerned anthropology grad students at the marvellous 7th Anthropology Student’s Symposion in Zurich has now taken a first form with this...
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Water Makes Money
Last Thursday the opening night of Leslie Franke and Herdolor Lorenz’ new documentary on water privatization took place, simultaneously in dozens of cinemas in several European countries. The...
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If it were my home
What if the BP Oil Spill would have been teleported to where you are right now? Ifitweremyhome.com is an effort to visualize the spatial dimensions of (in this case water related) disasters, such as...
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Whose Job is Hasankeyf?
Targeting the Funders After the refusal of Austria, Switzerland and Germany to grant export credit for the construction of the Ilısu dam project and Turkey’s explicit determination to continue the...
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Newswire: Turkish dams in foreign media
The Turkish news agency Anka (finally?) notices in a dispatch, that debatable Turkish dam projects are being discussed in foreign media. The LA Times writes about Hasankeyf and Le Monde about Allianoi,...
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NZZ: Dam project causes tensions in Central Asia
According to an article in today’s NZZOnline [german] by Almaty based German journalist Marcus Bensmann, Tajikistan’s Rogun dam project causes considerable tension in the region. It’s a very...
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Italy’s Public Says “No” to Water Privatization
Italy’s voting public have overturned no less than four laws by the Berlusconi government in today’s referendum. In the wake of Fukushima the public’s clear ballot against a revival of nuclear energy...
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The Dasani Paradox
The Coca Cola Company has been selling purified and artificially remineralized tap water as Dasani (or Bonaqa in Germany) since 1999. The purification process is complex and intricate, which makes it a...
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Aerial Firefighting and Disaster Capitalism
War is the father of all things, Heraclitus purportedly said. Certainly, war boosts economic potentials of very specific industries (while bringing demise to others). The most recent exterritorial...
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