How to Produce $20 Million Worth of Fish: Ocean...

The human population is booming worldwide and demand is escalating for healthy protein sources like seafood. Yet as more and more people consume fish, we deplete our wild fish stocks to lower and l...

From: FoodWater

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Top 10: Localize Water!

Eighty-seven percent of Americans receive their water from public utilities, which are first and foremost accountable to consumers. Like the air we breathe, we have an essential right to safe, affo...

From: FoodWater

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Top 10 Reasons Why Water Privatization Fails

With two-thirds of the world’s population expected to run short of fresh drinking water by 2025, water has come to be known as “the oil of the 21st century.” Multinational corporations are parlayin...

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Open-Water Fish Farming in the Keys?

The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) are federal bodies that make decisions about fish in U.S. waters. In September 2009, despite receiving tho...

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Water and Sewer Privatization Contributes to Sp...

Several cash-strapped municipalities, burdened by costly water improvements, have considered turning their water systems over to private water utilities. Water privatization, however, could have en...

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Paris Reclaims Public Water

In June 2009, the Paris City Council announced that the city’s water system would revert to public control at the end of 2009, after a century of private control. Paris is one of more than 40 Frenc...

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Individual Fishing Quotas: A Failure in Fisher...

Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) programs - also called rationalization, individual transferable quotas or limited access privilege programs are a form of privatizing fisheries. They grant certain ind...

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Offshore Aquaculture Kept Afloat With Governmen...

T he U.S. Department of Commerce strongly supports the National Offshore Aquaculture Act of 2007 and its purported promise for the nation’s economy. The department manages marine resources through ...

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Protect the Gulf from Dirty and Dangerous Indu...

Fact Sheet Protect the Gulf from Dirty and Dangerous Industrial Fish Farms I n September 2007, the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council released a draft of an amendment that would streamlin...

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Harmful Aquaculture Chemicals and Waste Slip Th...

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Hungry Halibut: Offshore Aquaculture’s Appetit...

Fact Sheet Hungry Halibut I Disappearing Anchovies and Other Small Fish Industrial fishing fleets take fish from the ocean faster than the fish reproduce. More than 75 percent of the ocean fisheries ha...

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Chemicals of Concern

Fact Sheet Open Ocean Aquaculture: Chemicals of Concern to Human Health and the Environment T he Bush administration promotes the development of a $1 billion offshore aquaculture industry as a w...

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How to Go rBGH-Free

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has estimated that over 40 percent of large dairy operations in the United States inject their cows with recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), a synthe...

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The False Promise of Ocean Aquaculture in Hawai`i

For the past 10 years, Hawai`i’s state-controlled waters have been a testing ground for the industrial ocean fish farming industry. But after a decade and an investment of millions in taxpayers’ do...

From: FoodWater

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Ocean Fish Farming

A dozen reasons to stop ocean fish farming in the United States

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Cargill Fact Sheet

Today, the global food system is in the hands of alarmingly few corporations that can run roughshod over consumer health, the environment and human rights. Cargill is one of these companies.

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Not Worth Its Salt - Fact Sheet

United Water New York is presenting its proposal to build a desalination plant on the Hudson River as Rockland County’s best long-term water supply option. Yet community members and organizations i...

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Not Worth Its Salt - Report

On December 14, 2006, the New York Public Service Commission charged United Water New York, the company that owns Rockland County’s water system, with coming up with a new long-term water supply. U...

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Cargill – Arkusz Informacyjny

Światowy system żywnościowy znajduje się obecnie w rękach kilku korporacji, które nie przywiązują wielkiego znaczenia do zdrowia konsumentów, ochrony środowiska i praw człowieka. Cargill jest jedną...

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Unseen Hazards from Nanotechnology to Nanotoxic...

Unfortunately, the enormous potential of nanotechnology to quell the world’s problems may be offset by its potential to cause harm. There is legitimate concern that the nano-sized particles employe...

From: FoodWater

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