Le projet Communautés bleues encourage les municipalités et les communautés autochtones à se doter d’un cadre reconnaissant l’eau comme un bien commun en adoptant des résolutions afin de :
- Reconnaître le droit à l’eau et aux services d’assainissement.
- Bannir ou éliminer progressivement la vente d’eau embouteillée dans les établissements municipaux et lors des activités municipales.
- Promouvoir les services d’eau et d’eaux usées financés, détenus et exploités par les gouvernements.
Le projet Communautés bleues a été lancé en 2009 par le Conseil des Canadiens, le projet Planète bleue et le Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique (SCFP). Au Québec, Eau Secours est également un partenaire du projet. Le mouvement Communautés bleues a pris de l’ampleur à l’échelle internationale, des municipalités comme Paris en France et Berne en Suisse étant devenues des « communautés bleues ». Des établissements d’enseignement, des communautés religieuses et des groupes confessionnaux ont aussi adopté les principes qui reconnaissent l’eau comme un bien commun partagé par tous et relevant de la responsabilité de tous.
Aidez votre communauté à devenir bleue !
Voici quelques réponses aux questions les plus courantes à propos du projet Communautés bleues.
Télécharger le guide Guide pour le projet Communautés bleues
Nous vous invitons à faire partie d’un mouvement local et mondial pour la justice de l’eau en adhérant au projet Communautés bleues – une initiative qui prône l’adoption par les administrations locales d’un cadre pour la reconnaissance de l’eau comme bien commun.
Découvrez comment participer à cette initiative en tant que militant local, employé du secteur public ou représentant élu pour aider à protéger l’eau, notre patrimoine commun, devant les pressions grandissantes pour commercialiser l’eau et privatiser les services d’approvisionnement en eau.
Groupes organisant des Communautés bleues
- Blue Community Germany / Die Blue Communities in Deutschland
- Blue Communities in Latin America
- Blue Communities Spain
- Blue Community Switzerland / Blue Community Schweiz
- Blue Communities in the United States, Food and Water Watch
- Blue Communities Project Guide (Canada & U.S.) / le Guide pour le projet Communautés bleues (français)
- Eau Secours, Québec, Canada
- Federation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Canada
Communautés bleues !

Blue Communities International
November 29, 2019
The Brussels Capital Region, representing 19 municipalities including the City of Brussels, agreed to co-sponsor the European Blue Communities meeting after voting to become a Blue Community in 2019.
To become a Blue Community, a local government or public institution must officially recognize water and sanitation as a human right, promote public water and wastewater services and phase out the sale of bottled water at municipal events. Brussels’ journey to becoming a Blue Community started in March 2018 by a group of IHECS students as part of a school project. The students, Aurélien De Bolster, Gabriel DeTheux, Martha Vandermeulen, Alexandre Van Hoek, Simon Verhoye and Lea Vromann were working on a school project related to water when they discovered the Blue Communities Project. Since then, the Blue Planet Project has supported their campaign together with our allies at the European Federation of Public Services Unions and Food and Water Europe. You can learn more about the journey of these students and their work to make Brussels a Blue Community here.
Congratulations Brussels Capital Region and the team at Brussels Blue Community for their tremendous efforts.
Pictured L-R: Meera Karunananthan (Blue Planet Project), Jonathan Bierman (Vivaqua), Minister-President of the Brussels Capital Region Rudi Vervoort, Maude Barlow and Brussels Blue Community représentatives Gabriel DeTheux, Lea Vromman, Martha Vandermeulan, Auréliens De Bolster, Alexandre Van Hoeke and Simon Verhoye.

Blue Community School
June 22, 2023
About Blue Community Schools
Blue Community Schools grows out of the international Blue Communities initiative – a network of communities protecting water and watersheds and promoting the human right to water and sanitation.
Now it is time to bring the values, principles, and pledges of the Blue Communities movement to young people through their schools, K to 12. They are inheriting this planet and need to learn about the imminent water crisis facing us and be given the tools to find solutions.


Blue Community School
March 2025
About Blue Community Schools
Blue Community Schools grows out of the international Blue Communities initiative – a network of communities protecting water and watersheds and promoting the human right to water and sanitation.
Now it is time to bring the values, principles, and pledges of the Blue Communities movement to young people through their schools, K to 12. They are inheriting this planet and need to learn about the imminent water crisis facing us and be given the tools to find solutions.


Blue Community School
June 22, 2023
About Blue Community Schools
Blue Community Schools grows out of the international Blue Communities initiative – a network of communities protecting water and watersheds and promoting the human right to water and sanitation.
Now it is time to bring the values, principles, and pledges of the Blue Communities movement to young people through their schools, K to 12. They are inheriting this planet and need to learn about the imminent water crisis facing us and be given the tools to find solutions.


Blue Community School
June 22, 2023
About Blue Community Schools
Blue Community Schools grows out of the international Blue Communities initiative – a network of communities protecting water and watersheds and promoting the human right to water and sanitation.
Now it is time to bring the values, principles, and pledges of the Blue Communities movement to young people through their schools, K to 12. They are inheriting this planet and need to learn about the imminent water crisis facing us and be given the tools to find solutions.


Blue Community School
June 22, 2023
About Blue Community Schools
Blue Community Schools grows out of the international Blue Communities initiative – a network of communities protecting water and watersheds and promoting the human right to water and sanitation.
Now it is time to bring the values, principles, and pledges of the Blue Communities movement to young people through their schools, K to 12. They are inheriting this planet and need to learn about the imminent water crisis facing us and be given the tools to find solutions.


Blue Communities Canada
July 13, 2021
Le Domaine-du-Roy Regional County Municipality is the first to mobilize all its communities to be Blue Communities. It includes Chambord, Lac-Bouchette, La Doré, Saint-André-du-Lac-Saint-Jean, Saint-Félicien, Roberval (2019), Saint-François-de-Sales (2019), Sainte-Hedwidge and Saint-Prime. Lisez plus.

Blue Communities International
November 6, 2019
Los Angeles becomes first major U.S. city designated as a Blue Community
Los Angeles is now the first major city in the U.S. to turn “blue,” joining cities around the world including Paris, France, Bern, Switzerland and Montreal in Canada to take clear steps to protect public water services.
“Protecting our water must be a global project,” said Council of Canadians Honorary Chairperson Maude Barlow. “In the past 10 years we have seen this movement grow in Canada, Europe, South America, and now our made-in-Canada idea has made it in Los Angeles.”
The Blue Community initiative commits the city to recognizing water and sanitation as human rights, promoting safe water and wastewater services and to phasing out the sale of bottled water at municipal events.
In Los Angeles, Council member Paul Krekorian led the fight. “This designation recognizes the groundbreaking efforts Los Angeles has undertaken in the areas of water rights, water quality, access and conservation, while also committing ourselves to meeting the future water needs of all Angelenos.”
The Blue Communities Project launched in 2009 as a joint initiative of the Council of Canadians, the Blue Planet Project, and the Canadian Union of Public Employees. It encourages people to work with their local elected representatives to bring forward resolutions that treat water as a common good that is shared by everyone and is the responsibility of all. There are now more than 23 million people living in Blue Communities.
The Council of Canadians congratulates Los Angeles for prioritizing public water and becoming a Blue Community!

Blue Community
May 1, 2024
NEWARI Becomes the First African NGO to Record Groundbreaking ‘Blue Community’ Designation, FountainCare Reporters, May 1, 2024

Blue Community
March 22, 2025
The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) is one of Canada’s largest national labor unions, representing more than 230,000 workers in every province and territory in Canada and in locations around the world. It is the largest union in the Canadian federal public sector.
Blue Communities
The Blue Communities Project encourages municipalities and Indigenous communities to support the idea of a water commons framework, recognizing that water is a shared resource for all, by passing resolutions that:
- Recognize water and sanitation as human rights.
- Ban or phase out the sale of bottled water in municipal facilities and at municipal events.
- Promote publicly financed, owned, and operated water and wastewater services.

Blue Communities International
January 22, 2025
Save the Caspian Sea is a civic movement created solely for educational and informational purposes. It aims to raise awareness about the ecological situation affecting the Caspian sea. Read more.

Blue Communities Canada
March 22, 2024
The Council of Canadians is proud to be a Blue Community, reaffirming our commitment to protecting water as a human right and a shared public resource. By recognizing water and sanitation as human rights, promoting publicly owned and operated water services, and phasing out bottled water in our spaces, we stand with communities across Canada and around the world in defending water for people and the planet.
Help turn your community blue!

Blue Community International
April 16, 2025
The Transnational Institute (TNI) is an international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic, and sustainable planet. Its vision is of an equitable, democratic and peaceful world in which all life may flourish. Among its values are: democracy, justice and care. These values explicitly apply to water governance and water resources management. With the Blue Community network, TNI shares a vision of alternative economies/societies that maximise collective autonomy and put the flourishing of communities & regeneration of ecosystems at the centre. Based on these values, TNI is a strategic ally for the Blue Community since many years.
TNI has played a crucial role in building the social movement “Right2Water”, the UN acknowledgment of the human right to water, and the campaign (2012-2013) that fought for implementation of the human right to water in European law and won.

Blue Community International
April 23, 2025
Welcome uMlalazi as the very first municipality on the African continent to join the Blue Community. Read more.

Endorsement
February 26, 2020

Blue University
Victoria College in the University of Toronto, Ontario became a Blue Community on October 12, 2023
Read more

Blue Communities International
January 15, 2025
We Own It is a UK based organization that campaigns against privatisation and for 21st century public ownership. Read more.