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- 05.03.07
: More water send from Tagus to dry southeast
- 12.05.06
: Black water market drying out Spain says WWF.
- 19.12.05
: Water transfers back on Spain's agenda
- 01.07.05
: Marshland restoration in Spain’s Doñana National Park
- 11.02.05
: Spain (Ecotaxe on water), Government backs down (Edie News)
- 19.01.05
: Spain : preparations made should drought continue (if the lack
of rain continues)
- 17.12.04
: Zaragossa was elected to welcome the next Universal Exposition
(f)
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26.11.04
: Spanish supreme court annuls water transfer (Environment Daily)
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18.08.04
: Spain: A turnaround in water management (WWF )
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19.06.04
: Visca l'Ebre! (Long live the Ebro!): The Ebro Delta celebrates!
(Ebro water transfer is abolished )
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03.05.04
: Spain Puts Last Touches to New Ebro Water Plan
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08.03.04
: EU Commission pans Spanish water transfer plan
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17.12.03
: EU : Decision delayed on Spanish water transfer
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08.12.03
: Espagne/PHN : NGOs call for sending e mail to EU Commisioners
- 04.12.03
: EU Commission's Environment Directorate support for the the Jucár-Vinalopó
Project, what is a part of the highly criticised Ebro transfer
- 07.11.03
: The european campaign for a new water culture and against the
spanish hydrological plan opens the "blue embassy" on
wednesday november 5 , 2003
- 28.07.03
: Spain : New Water Culture Foundation and WWF Report : the Ebro
water transfer is a waste of money.
- 06.05.03
: Water transfers are increasing the water crisis (EEB/WWF)
- 17.04.03
: EU Commission sends warnings to Ireland, France, Spain and Greece
Spain is questioned about the River Ulla
(Edie News) (e)
- 17.04.03
: (ext) Ebro :spain public opinion divided
- 14.04.03
:Pedro Arrojo,
leader of the mouvment against the spanish national Hydro Plan wins
Goldman Price 2003
- 13.03.03
: International video-conference by internet :"Debating the
water transfers of the Spanish National Hydrological Plan"
- 08.03.03
: Spain designates 10 new RAMSAR sites and extends an existing one
- 02.03.03
: Spanien: Hundred of Thousands protest in favor of polemic water
plan (AP)
- 26.02.03
: New questions from the Green Eurodeputies to the Europ. Com. about
financing NHP and the Cartagena Report, on feb.26.03. by Gianluca
Solera (french and spanish).
- 25.02.03:
EU tax payers should not fund Spain's damaging water plan (WWF)
- 23.01.03
: Analysis of argumentation in favor of the NHP,
by Prof. M. Chóliz Montañés, Psychology Dpt
in Universidad de Valencia University. (sp).
- 15.01.03
: Report
on the Ebro Delta prepared by Professors John Day and Edward Maltby
(eng).
- 08.01.03
: The
answer from the Spanish govern. to the Europ. Commission.(spanish).
- 19.12.02
: a new letter from the Europ. Commision to the Spanish Governement
about PHN questions.(fr & sp)
- 27.11.02:
"Dam decisions" put Spain in the hotseat (WWF pressrelease)
- 26.11.02
: NGOs protest to Prodi over spanish Water Plan
- 24.11.02
:
Marcha al Mediterraneo : Demonstration in Valencia (fr).
- 23.11.02
: Interview extracts of Ramsar President during the 8th Conference
in Valencia. (fr & esp).
- 23.11.02
: Rhone-Barcelone water transfert : project of a submarine pipe.(fr)
- 20.11.02
: Spain : the Valencian government worries about the European subventions
for the NHP and wants to accelerate the beginning of building.(fr)
- 18.11.02
: the Catalan government will ask tomorrow the Rhône water
transfert to the Madrid central government during a non-official
meeting.
- 17.11.02
: Marcha of the Ebro and the Rhone : 17 000 walkers on the stage
of Tortosa (Delta of Ebro).
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09.11.02 : Espagne/France: Marches (Marcha al mediterraneo)
against water transfers are on their way, on the Ebro and Rhône
rivers, heading to Valencia for the Ramsar Convention on November
24th.
- 29.10.02:
First Of Two Ramsar Advisory Missions To Doñana
- 18.10.02:
WWF: Spanish Government's figures and data on National Hydrological
Plan's Ebro Transfer benefits are wrong and misleading
- 04.10.02
: Spain/France :"Marcha al Mediterraneo" organised by
the opposition to the PHN will start from Ebro, Jucar and Segura
basins and Rhone basin to arrive at the Ramsar Convention in Valencia
(Spain) from 10.30. to 11.23.02. (fr/sp).
- 28.09.02
: Meeting of opposition to the Rhone river transfert to Barcelona,
on the 28 september 02 in Girona, Spain. (french and spanish).
- 04.09.02
: Spain/PHN : 39 000 objections signed against connection water
in Tarragona, first step to the transfert of Ebro water to Barcelona.(fr/sp).
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24.08.02
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Objections against conection water nets between Tarragona y Ter-Llobregat
: text available.
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24.08.02
: The walk of the "Water Pilgrims" from Spain to
Brussels on september : Programm and registration.
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13.08.02
: "No
to the P.I.D.E." the Integral
Proctection Plan for the Delta". text by the "Plataforma
en Defensa del Ebre"
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08.08.02
: Universitary essay about impacts reduction of the Ebro river
transfert (english), by Valérie Lacroix/F.U.Bruxels.
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29.07.02
: the TRASAGUA Spanish state company, charged to realise the Ebro
transfert, gave his report.(french).
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29.07.02
: The Spanish Environment Ministery sent his answer to the European
Commision about the NHP.(french)
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21.07.02.
: Water Transfer from the Rhone Delta to Barcelona: Spanish press
resume about Catalan delegation's visit to the BRL Cie at Nîmes
on the 18th July. (french).
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18.07.02 : Is the Water
Transfer Project from the Rhone Delta
to Barcelona back ? (fr and spanish). NGOs Protest against the
visite of the Number Two of the Catalan Party in France/Nîmes
(french an spanish)
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ERN, the
Plataforme de Défense de l'Ebre and the the Green Party during
the protest
action
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- 13.07.02
: Day of action and information about NHP in the Barcelona Cultural
Contemporan Center.
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01.07.02
: the Spanish Supreme Court cancels the expropriation decided by
the Ministers Council in 1998 of lands needed for filling the Santaliestra
dam (Spanish Pyrennees).
- 21.02.06
:at the hearing of the Petitions Committee, the Greens call for
a parliamentary delegation being sent to Spain to investigate the
effects of the PHN on the environment.
- 19.06.02
: the European Parliament's Petitions Committee discuss 10 petitions
on the PHN on Wednesday June 19 at 4 PM.
- 17.06.02
: Spain : Itoiz dam gets the green light after all.
- 05.06.02
: Questions sent by the European Commission to the Spanish Government
about the NHP
on the 23rd May 02.
(integral text
in english / french / spanish)
- 28.05.02:
Spanish National Hydrological Plan : Informal meeting with Commissioner
Barnier
- 27.05.02:
EU delays decision to fund Spanish water plan
- 25.05.02
: The Blue March in the Majorca island and the Demonstration ( 8
to 10 000 persons) in Palma
(Press photos and resume in french
and in spanish)
- 21.05.02:
Spain : protests against Itoiz dam
- 13.05.02
: A new Blue Marche and a Demonstration against P.H.N., in the Majorca
Island during the European Summit of Environment Ministers, from
24 to 26 May 2002.
- 10.05.02
: How the NPH will permit maintain and extension of non-sustainable
corn culture in semi-arid Castilla-La Mancha
regions. By Antonio Estevan (in french
and in spanish).
- 23.04.02:
Spanish supreme court deals blow to Itoiz dam
- 10.03.02
: Barcelona: 400-500'000 against the spanish National Hydrological
Plan
- 08.03.02
: Spanish water transfer plan "finalised"
- 24.02.02:
The EP Environment Committee approves the am. against the PHN.
- 18.02.02:
New demonstrations against the NHP.
- 15.02.02: Call
for demonstration against PHN : 17 February there will be a demonstration
(about 20,000) in the Delta, starting in the Town Hall of Deltebre
at 11.00am.
- 12.02.02:
Analysis of the environnemental assessment document of the National
Hydrological Plan presented to the European Parliament by the Spanish
government. A
document of the New Water Culture Foundation.
(In english - available in spanish on request - PDF format)
- 08.02.02:
Outcry as largest Europe dam opens
- 30.01.02:
March 10 : Important demonstration for a new water culture and against
the Spanish National Hydrological Plan in Barcelona
- 24.01.02:
Spanish Presidency's contradictory environmental plans ! (Pressrelease
The Greens/European Free
Alliance in the European Parliament)
- 24.01.02:
Spain's environment ministry published an environmental assessment
of the country's controversial national hydrological plan
- 24.01.02:
Spain notifies EU of controversial water plan
- 15.11.01:
European Parliament passes an important amendment against the Spanish
Hydrological Plan.
- 09.10.01
:The Commission on Environment of the European Parliament approves
the amendment against the Spanish National Hydrological Plan. (eng
& fr)
- 12.09.01:
Long-awaited report. RAMSAR mission report on Ebro delta now available
- 11.09.01:
The Blue Marche brings its claims to the European Union in Brussels
- 07.09.01:
THE BLUE MARCHE ARRIVES IN BRUSSELS !
- 05.09.01:
Portugal/Alqueva: Biggest Europe reservoir to start filling year
en
- 01.09.01:
The Blue Marche for a new Water Culture : Press Conference in Parliament
House (Assemblée Nationale) in Paris on september 4th (fr)
- 29.08.01:
The " Blue Marche For a New Water Culture in Europe" (Spain-Brussels)
in Lyon and Paris
- 10.08.01:
Spain, victim of its "hdroschizophrenia"
- 02.07.01:
Europe/Spain: Blue March for a new water culture (eng & fr)
- 21.06.01:
Spanish parliament passes controversial water law
- 05.05.01
: Condemnation of Europe's largest reservoir project grows
- 04.04.01
: Portugal: Alqueva Dam: Over 1 million trees are to be cut down,
and hundreds of people are being displaced.
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13.03.01 : Protesters urge Spain to scrap water plan
- 25.02.01
: Thousands march to protest the national hydraulic plan
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17.02.01
: Spanish government approves controversial water plan
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12.02.01 : Portugal : Activists are fighting against the biggest
dam project of Europe.
- 08.01.01
: Spain appeals ruling in toxic spill case
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29.12.00
: The government mulls appeal of toxic spill ruling.
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28.12.00
: Spanish judge closes case in massive toxic spill
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14.12.00
: European Commission insists on "Environmental Analysis"
of Spanish National Hydrological Plan. (angl)
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07.10.00
: Spain : Friends of the Earth demand reform to the national
hydrological plan (PHN)
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RHÔNE-BARCELONA,
France/Spain aqueduct project. (french)
The
Blue Marche for an new water culture
(august 11th
-
september 9th 2001)
The
Alqueva Dam project
Campaign
Calendar Of The Platform For The Defense Of The River Ebro
Some external links
(generally in Spanish) :
News
about water problems in Spain
Map
of water conflicts in Spain
Spanish Environment Ministry
COAGRET
(Coordinadora de Afectad@s por Grandes Embalses y Trasvases)
Platform
for River Ebro Defense
Ecologists in Action
Greenpeace
Spain (link from main site in Spanish only)
Donana
projects (WWF)
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more links:
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