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Restoring the planet's life support systems // Restaurando los sistemas de soporte de vida del planeta

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Along the 2nd largest river in Indonesia, rice fields have transformed into coal mines & children have drowned in some of the 200 abandoned pits in the area. The women are uniting to take legal action against the govt. #WeWomenAreWater #WorldWaterDay https://t.co/J27lEFeKZB

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What happens when #water isn't available to those most vulnerable to #COVID19? This is a question women & communities across Africa are grappling w/ as they demand their govts guarantee them this basic human right #WeWomenAreWater #WorldWaterDay https://t.co/qTXormB1kn

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The trees of Peru’s Madre de Dios rainforest play a fundamental role in the water cycle that provides millions of ppl w/ water. The women-led org @ArbioPeru is protecting them from a growing timber industry. #WeWomenAreWater #IntlForestDay
https://t.co/K1Utf8N4Xb

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Faced with water scarcity & oil-contaminated waters, the women of Entre Rios, Bolivia, are holding trainings & raising awareness about efficient water use & management, as well as constructing water harvesting tanks. #WeWomenAreWater
https://t.co/IgawRAIPOj

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Only nuclear explosions are louder than the sound waves emitted from seismic oil exploration, which are impacting wildlife & the local communities' food source in the Bolivian Amazon. Indigenous women are making their water demands known #WeWomenAreWater
https://t.co/rNEVoRreZR

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Coal mines operating in Mongolia's Omnogovi province used drinking water to separate sulphur from coal, leading to the disappearance of 14 local rivers. Women-led groups representing 200 affected families temporarily stopped them.

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Deforestation, mining & municipal mismanagement are destroying the Motagua River in Guatemala. A group of rural young feminists are using art and community organizing to protect the river as well as the women & youth of the territory. #WeWomenAreWater https://t.co/fldjUrVNO8

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Adivasi women living close to India’s Zawar mines saw their water turn black, leading to poor crop yields & health issues. They mobilized themselves to understand their rights & speak out.
#WeWomenAreWater https://t.co/wXd8ZwjwwY

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The Q'eqchi' women of Santa María Cahabón, GT, have been at the forefront of the resistance against dams that are "killing the river," their main & sacred source of water— fighting on as community leaders are persecuted. #RightsofRivers #WeWomenAreWater https://t.co/yeuUNcdXMU

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The Rositas dam in Bolivia is predicted to flood 45,000 ha of mostly forested area, affecting over 500 rural families. It was thanks to the leadership of local women that a lawsuit temporarily paralyzed the project. #WeWomenAreWater #RightsofRivers https://t.co/3P4F8juE0L

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The only source of water for communities in an arid area of Zimbabwe has been contaminated by chemicals discharged by a gold mine. To gain access to clean water, women are repairing boreholes & lobbying to drill new ones. #WeWomenAreWater https://t.co/mE7aUgJzSs
#muondetrust

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Communities on Java, Indonesia, whose livelihoods were dependent on springs & rivers, have lost their incomes after a geothermal energy project muddied their waters. The women are demanding the project be stopped. #WeWomenAreWater https://t.co/7MSZUE63Zt

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Agro-industrial interests caused forest fires to devastate Bolivia's Chiquitanía & pollute its scarce water. The women defending life amid the flames demand access to water, its restoration & an end to indiscriminate logging. #WeWomenAreWater
https://t.co/eFlEo2kh4V

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In a drought-stricken region of South Africa most water is used to supply local coal mines, drying up the communities' taps & rivers. CSOs & women from 200 rural communities are calling on their govt to address these urgent water demands👇https://t.co/3kUoc9uCiU #WeWomenAreWater

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NigerDelta is the world's 3rd largest mangrove forest which stores carbon 4x more than traditional rainforests, but it may disappear in the next 50 years due to oil spills & nipa palms.Let's do something about it🌱https://t.co/Q7OOFlOzc9 @GAGGA_Alliance @lokiakawomen @mamacash

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After getting hit by Hurricanes Eta & Iota during the pandemic, the women of Honduras’ Sula Valley continue to resist hydroelectric plants in an area long considered the heart of transnational occupation. #IWD2021 @fcmujeres @GAGGA_Alliance https://t.co/IsEkLeNdYE

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This #IWD2021 join our campaign March 8-22 to highlight women’s role, demands and actions in the fight for water in the face of #ClimateChange. @GAGGA_Alliance https://t.co/1GpOVjuDVm

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Restored forests and farmland can create hundreds of thousands of rural jobs. Using analog forestry gives the restoration a unique form - imitating natural forests. https://t.co/ZwuP58d7Qr

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Mary Bakia, our CENDEP coordinator is among the four female voices from different countries, who share accounts of hurdles women face in working to protect their communities - collected by the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action earlier this year.

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This week on @dw_environment via @srmBAKER we speak about how #COVID19 has impacted our communities and how we are facing these hurdles in Latin America, India, the Niger Delta, Cameroon and Indonesia. Listen here: https://t.co/aFECtcQBXc

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In much of the Global South, the face of farming is female. Rural women have crucial knowledge & experience on living sustainably with the earth’s resources rather than extracting them, & putting self and collective care into practice. Just ask Betty 👇#RuralWomensDay