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Water Grabbing Observatory (WGO) is an NGO founded to analyse and create awareness around international social, environmental and economic phenomena connected to water and the climate. It brings together a group of researchers, journalists, photographers and experts to survey, analyse and communicate water and climate crises, and the conflicts and resource grabbing they engender. WGO employs a number of tools: investigative journalism and reportages, infographics, maps, photos and videos shared across a variety of digital and non-digital channels, editorial projects and social media campaigns, exhibitions and events for scientific dissemination, and participation in networks and pressure groups. Water Grabbing Observatory seeks to impact public opinion, political agendas and the private sector with the aim of supporting the right to water and public water, the decarbonisation of the economy, as well as social and environmental justice.

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Ercan Ayboga, from Kurdistan to Rojava, defending rivers and the right to water

Ercan Ayboga, from Kurdistan to Rojava, defending rivers and the right to water

Committed to the struggle for the right to water, in Hasankeyf and in the Syrian region of Rojava. This is the story of water defender Ercan Ayboga.

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Water defender Andrea Goltara fights to save Italy’s rivers

Water defender Andrea Goltara fights to save Italy’s rivers

Italy needs more space for its rivers and for them to be managed more naturally. Water defender Andrea Goltara knows this well.

Water defender Olsi Nika is fighting for Albania’s Vjosë River

Water defender Olsi Nika is fighting for Albania’s Vjosë River

Europe’s last wild river, the Vjosë in Albania, is threatened by hydroelectric development. Activist Olsi Nika tells us about the international campaign to protect it.

Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, fighting for water rights at the United Nations

Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, fighting for water rights at the United Nations

“The value of water is not its price”. We speak to Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, the new United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation.

Eugene Simonov, the Russian activist fighting to defend free-flowing rivers

Eugene Simonov, the Russian activist fighting to defend free-flowing rivers

Water defender Eugene Simonov’s mission is to protect rivers and their biodiversity along the borders of Russia, China and Mongolia.

Zica Pires, a lifetime protecting quilombo land in Brazil

Zica Pires, a lifetime protecting quilombo land in Brazil

The story of water defender Zica Pires, a young Brazilian activist fighting against the exploitation of quilombo land in Brazil.

Mosab al-Hindi’s fight for water, and against huge odds, in Gaza

Mosab al-Hindi’s fight for water, and against huge odds, in Gaza

Over 90% of Gaza’s groundwater isn’t safe to drink. Mosab al-Hindi is fighting against huge odds to preserve water resources there.

Water defender Milica Kočović De Santo’s fight to save Serbian mountain rivers

Water defender Milica Kočović De Santo’s fight to save Serbian mountain rivers

Milica Kočović De Santo is a water defender working to oppose a hydroelectric plant in Stara Planina National Park, between Serbia and Bulgaria.

Autumn Peltier and the fight for native Canadians’ right to water

Autumn Peltier and the fight for native Canadians’ right to water

Autumn Peltier is a water defender who began her fight for indigenous Canadians’ right to clean drinking water when she was only eight years old.

Rebuilding Iraq starting from water. The story of Salman Khairalla

Rebuilding Iraq starting from water. The story of Salman Khairalla

Salman Khairalla is an Iraqi activist who’s been fighting to protect his country’s marshes, a key water resource, since 2007.

Water defender Reza Sahib fights privatisation in Indonesia

Water defender Reza Sahib fights privatisation in Indonesia

Mohammed Reza Sahib, who fights for the right to water as a public good, has contributed to halting the privatisation of this resource in Indonesia.