CASE STUDIES

This year’s report brings together over thirty case studies from activists, researchers and policymakers. These first-hand accounts cover a range of issues, from conflict in water-stressed parts of the world to cultural forms of water conservancy and peaceful governance.

Türkiye: Water is used as a weapon against Kurdish people in south-eastern Anatolia

Nepal: The cost of hydropower – dispossessing indigenous Magar communities of land and water

Kyrgyzstan: The Kempir-Abad reservoir – political uncertainty or an opportunity for cooperation?

Paraguay: Lack of drinking water in the country that holds the world’s largest freshwater reserve

Madagascar: Tiomena, the red sandstorm and its impact on Tandroy people

Libya: The impact of water scarcity on Amazigh communities in the Nafusa mountain region

Australia: Water crisis, rising sea levels and coastal inundations affecting Zenadth Kes Islanders

Pakistan: Unequal distribution of flood relief in Umerkot District

Kenya: Eviction, flooding and disability in Baringo County

Hungary: Flood-borne environmental injustices against Roma communities

Nigeria: ‘Water was the source of life; it is now the cause of death’ – the ongoing oil pollution crisis among Ogoni people in the Niger Delta

Guatemala: Water pollution and the rights of Q’eqchi Peoples in El Estor

Canada: Oil sands and ongoing Indigenous Peoples’ health rights violations

Somalia: The impact of poor sanitation and improper waste disposal on the health of minority IDPs in Baidoa

Ecuador: The right to water for Afro-descendant communities in Esmeraldas

Banner video: Leweton Village Cultural Group perform ‘Sogor (Rim Rim Siag)’, on Espiritu Santo Island in Vanuatu, in an excerpt from Vanuatu Women’s Water Music (2015), directed by Tim Cole and produced by Further Arts and Small Island Big Song.