With the competition for clean water growing, some of the world`s largest companies
have joined forces and created maps of water availability in the largest river basins.
The Water Risk Atlas, an Aqueduct project, can be a valuable asset for the sustainable
use of water resources, if it is used by companies to prevent water scarcity and accessible to the local communities.
The scramble for natural resources and the related killings of activists,
journalists and community rights activists who had -in vain- defended their
rights to land and forests are in the focus of a new Global Witness briefing.
The NGO has analyzed the timeframe of 2001-2011, concluding that tensions
are massively on the rise, particularly in Brazil, Colombia, the Philippines and Peru.
