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World Toilet Day 2009
Foreign Exchange special devoted to global water crises 
Desertification in China
Reports from Kenya, Kakuma Refugee Camp
South Asia’s Troubled Waters
Reports from Ethiopia
Reports from India
Pulitzer reports from the 2009 World Water Forum
Reports from East Africa
Foreign Exchange broadcast devoted to Water Wars 
Ask the Expert: The Big Necessity The main issue the typical American faces with concern to water is whether Evian tastes better than Ice Mountain. It’s just not something we think about. We have a seemingly endless supply of it, enough to accidentally leave the faucet running from time to time without causing a fuss, and so we mistakenly [...]
In the United States, water is an abundant resource, and almost all Americans have easy access to a clean water source. Because of water’s profusion, it is not an social or political concern in the United States. However, some countries do not have this access to clean water. In some regions of the world, like [...]
Most americans have unlimited access to water. Therefore, water does not play a role in social and political affairs in the U.S. We do not focus on water as an economic problem. The rest of the world is not so fortunate. Water is becoming more scarce throughout the world and is [...]
Water does not play a role in the social and political affairs in the United States due to how easily we Americans have access to it, and how cheaply we can obtain it. Most Americans do not have to fight for the basic necessities of life such as water. Thus, we focus more [...]
In the United States, water is a resource I would never even associate with social and political affairs; it’s just something that’s always there. Growing up in a society in which getting water would never be a problem, I always thought of “political” resources as oil and petroleum. However, in other parts of the world, [...]
How can we honestly improve the international water crisis without seriously compromising foreign relations?
Would it be possible to set up a sort of community water purifying plant based on Sodis? People would still have to get the water, but a larger amount could be purified.
If people put water bottles on their roofs to purify them don’t other people steal them? It would seem to me that a lot of rivalry would go on in the community, is there? Is there some way we can get the community to work together to get water so that there would [...]
I’m curious how exactly do the UV rays purify the water. How does the plastic containers help? Could there be a more effective way of cheap water purification?
Is Ksh50 (75 cents) an average amount of money earned in a day, a lot of money, or not much at all compared to other residents of Kibera. And how much would someone in the cities make each day compared to the people in Kibera?
