Water woes in Baltimore, faith and the city in Hong Kong and soil-hunters in Zimbabwe – Your weekly city news update

Hindu devotees sit together on the floor of a temple to observe the third day of Rakher Upabashin in Dhaka, Bangladesh, November 10, 2018. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

Hong Kong Christians, rights groups oppose ‘irresponsible’ land plan

“We believe we have a responsibility towards protecting the Earth and doing all we can to fight climate change”

Dirty business: the soil-hunters eating Zimbabwe’s habitable land

A group of fly-by-nighters in Zimbabwe’s capital are whisking away earth for sale to the construction industry

As groundwater runs short, water battles grow in parched Chennai

India is suffering “the worst water crisis in its history” – and in Chennai water deliveries are in the balance

Baltimore votes to become first large U.S. city to ban water privatisation

Baltimore’s aging infrastructure has drawn increasing attention from private water companies seeking to take over management of parts of the city systems

40 years of global struggle for rights to housing, land and city life

Are our global property rights still guaranteed?