www.charitywater.org
This website is working to raise money for water projects at schools around the world. Check it out if you’d like to donate money or start a fundraising project for a school. Just $5000 will fund a project so children in lower and middle income countries will have this basic resource!
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A tour through Dhaka by Rickshaw
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Early climate science reported at the recent Hawaii Conservation Alliance conference reinforces the outlook for less rain in these islands, as the warming sea lifts the rain clouds higher than our rain-catching mountain-tops.
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In the middle of a group of street dogs, Anna-Katarina Gravgaard talks about reporting from the slums of Delhi, on people defecating on train rails, watching the polluted Yamuna River and talking to the sanitation expert Dr. Bindeswar Pathak, who recently got the Water Price 2009 in Stockholm.
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I live in a little flat in an area once a waterbody. Nothing grows in my garden except weeds and maybe a few trees like guava, neem, papaya etc as the waterbodies were filled up with rubbish to create solid ground for the buildings. In about 10 years there have been multiple highrises which have [...]
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Director of Nepal Water for Health, Umesh Pandey, talks about water issues in Nepal.
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Trekking guide Damadon Pyakurel talks about hydro power, what it was like growing up without electricity and the tension with India and China.
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Everest climber and organizer of the “Beat the GLOF Action Run,” Dawa Stephen Sherpa, talks about the changes and dangers global warming is causing on the world’s highest mountain.
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Oceanologist, Simon Boxal, talks about the rising sea levels their impact on South Asia
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Member of Nepali Parliament, Sunil Pant, talks about climate change and its impact on the poorest people of Nepal.
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Jyoti Sharma from the NGO FORCE talks about “The Five Rs of Water,” and why she got into water management.
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Director of WaterAid in Delhi, Indira Khurana, talks about the challenges of installing public toilets, and how proper sanitation sets people free to dream.
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CE of WaterAid, Lourdes Baptista, talks about water management, quantity and quality in India
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Bijaya Man Sherchan, President of Electric Vehicle Associationo of Nepal, talks about electric cars and their potential for a cleaner Kathmandu.
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CE of WaterAid, Lourdes Baptista, talks about water management, quantity and quality in India
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water, conflict, scarcity, South Asia
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A couple of days ago we got a powerful glimpse of the psychology of water. Jyoti Sharma, President of the water related ngo FORCE invited me to witness the situation in and around the C sector in Vasant Kunj, South Delhi. Here, everyone stocks up on water. But whereas the slum dwellers only manage to [...]
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BG Vergese, water, South Asia, conflict
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David Grey, water, conflict, indus treaty
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South Asia, water, conflict, Mustafa Talpur,
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Reporters William Wheeler and Anna-Katarina Gravgaard reflect on their experiences in Nepal, India and Pakistan reporting on water.
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Fellow at New Delhi’s The Energy and Resource Institute describes India’s water crisis and what needs to be done about it.
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World Bank Economist Claudia Sadoff talks about climate change in South Asia.
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World Bank Water Adviser David Grey talks about the water issues South Asia is facing.
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Ariena T from San Fernando discusses how her students are raising money and awareness to support Life Straws, a technology that is saving lives in Asia and Africa
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Senator Durbin (D-IL) greets legislators at the Fifth World Water Forum in Istanbul in March of 2009. He highlights the importance of clean water and adequate sanitation and discusses the Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act of 2009, a piece of legislation that would extend first-time access to safe drinking water and sanitation [...]
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At the crack of dawn when women and children in other parts of the world wake up to take warm showers and sit down to breakfast, women and children of Kakuma in Turkana Region of Kenya wake up to a different exercise: to walk for miles in the hunt for water. Upon their arrival at [...]
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Reporting on the Indus Water treaty in Pakistan
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reporting on pollution from a Tibetan exile community in Nepal
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For the mountain people of the Langtang region, the recession of the Himalayan glaciers is an unexplained fact of life.
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The streets of Boudha have turned into a muddy puddle as monsoon and sewer water mix while frantic community members work to lay down pipes before the waters rise over their feet.
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There are 884 million people in the world that do not have access to clean water and 2.5 billion without adequate sanitation. However, solutions are possible and we are on the verge of making a huge positive impact with the implementation of the Durbin-Corker Water for the World Act of 2009. In order to get [...]
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The public private social partnership in the management of Water and Sanitation Services in Peru, by WSP and partners.
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water, hygiene
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Imagine trying to live without clean water.
No faucets or water providing water that is safe to drink. Just filthy water holes miles from home. Adults would become ill and be unable to work. Children would drop out of school.
This is reality for 900 million people worldwide.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. [...]
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In the last parched weeks of the dry season before the monsoon arrives– an eight month drought that has starved the fields, wells, and power generators on which Nepal depends– the villagers of Pattan take the hulking figure of a rain god from his temple home and parade it through the streets in a plea [...]
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GWC’s Sweta Daga hefts a 40 pound jerrycan of water while visiting a project site in Rwanda. Kids as young as 5-years-old often have to lug these up to 6 kilometers to bring water home to their families.
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This is the story of two villages in rural Guatemala and their quest for clean drinking water. The video takes a look at the role community-based financing plays in improving access to clean drinking water.
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This is the story of a 12-year-old girl named Magdalena who lives in Guatemala. She tells of her family’s struggle to obtain access to clean water and sanitation.
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Young entrepreneurs at Ragen Elementary in Kenya discovered that they could purify the entire school’s drinking water for only $16/year. To pay for it, they started a garden to sell vegetables to the local community.
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Around the world, 884 million people do not have access to safe drinking water and 2.5 billion are without adequate sanitation facilities. Watch the video to hear about innovative solutions Water For People, along with its partners, are implementing in developing countries. You’ll also hear directly from staff in the field about the impact Water [...]
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Water For People looks at the public health challenges people in developing countries face with limited access to water and sanitation.
www.waterforpeople.org
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Water For People takes a look at the effects of the global water crisis on women and girls in developing countries. On average, women and girls carry 40 pounds of water 3.5 miles every day, hindering their opportunity to work or attend school, and continuing the cycle of poverty.
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Water For People discusses the value and benefits to the local economy and to sustainability when using appropriate technologies to improve access to water and sanitation facilities.
www.waterforpeople.org
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Staff of the DC-based non-profit, Water Advocates, talk about the importance of the Water for the World Act and how you can help by signing the ONE petition. The petition is geared at encouraging more senators to become co-sponsors of the Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act, which would put the U.S. at [...]
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Haley Madson is a Blue Mountain Project Board Member and a member of the Bonner Foundation AmeriCorps VISTA program at Ripon College in Wisconsin.
Here she talks about the work the Blue Mountain Project is doing in Jamaica with the people living in the rural Blue Mountain area to address health concerns and access to food [...]
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South Asia’s Troubled Waters: in the field -Nepal and Pakistan.
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Pfeiffer University student Shamsoun Dikori of Sudan talks about his reaction to the Pulitzer Center’s water wars reporting from Ethiopia, Kenya and beyond, and what he thinks could help the scarcity situation and resource management in east Africa.
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Pfeiffer student Susannah Bales shares her story about her time working for Americorps VISTA in Tennessee and how it connects to global sanitation problems and in particular, sanitation issues in Ethiopia and Kenya.
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A couple of days ago we got a powerful glimpse of the psychology of water. Jyoti Sharma, President of the water related ngo FORCE invited me to witness the situation in and around the C sector in Vasant Kunj, South Delhi. Here, everyone stocks up on water. But whereas the slum dwellers only manage to [...]
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A Mercy Corps survey in 5 provinces of Indonesia found that only 30% of school-age children wash their hands before eating and after using toilets. Hand washing reduces the spread of water-bourne illnesses such as diarrhea, a major cause of malnutrition in children. Mercy Corps Sumatra Healthy Schools Program trained field officers to deliver a [...]
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Bouar, one of the largest cities in Central African Republic, has no running water. Lack of potable water, coupled with poor sanitation and hygiene, has led to devastating health consequences, including repeated outbreaks of typhoid fever and other water-born illnesses. In addition, approximately 1,500 people have sought refuge in Bouar from banditry in the countryside, [...]
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Upper Nile state in southern Sudan has just emerged from two decades of civil war. Most of the residents of the area have recently returned home after years of being displaced because of the war. Living conditions are difficult and many people are without sources of income or employment. Mercy Corps is leading a consortium [...]
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Nepal is extremely vulnerable to natural disasters, ranking 11th in global vulnerability to earthquakes and 30th in vulnerability to floods. Each year flooding and erosion of river banks cause loss of life, destruction of homes and community infrastructure, death of livestock, and decimation of arable land, crops and property. Mercy Corps in cooperation with Nepal [...]
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In Afghanistan, half the population lives below the poverty line and the unemployment rate is 40%. Of those who do have jobs, most work in agriculture. Improving agriculture is key to reducing hunger and poverty in Afghanistan and good water management is key to improving agriculture. Mercy Corps supports local efforts to improve water management [...]
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Maria Gunnoe is the 2009 Recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize. Here she shares the story of how the stream on her property was polluted by strip-mining waste.
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Rose George, author of The Big Necessity, talks briefly about the World Water Forum in Istanbul.
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President of Water Advocates David Douglas talks briefly about the historical role of water in conflict and cooperation.
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The inventor of the Sulabh pour flush toilet tells how his technology has improved sanitation in India. www.sulabhinternational.org
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The Nauni district in Himachal Pradesh, India has proven that even rural areas in the developing world can affordably adopt environmental technology like solar panels, rainwater harvesting and eco-san toilets.
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Mark Messmer, an 8th grade student participating in a middle school model UN session organized by Civitas Associates in St. Louis Missouri submitted a resolution on clean water in Peru. In this video he talks about why he chose this issue and how it relates to local issues in his own community. Read the resolution [...]
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At World Water Forum FAO Director General Jacques Diouf says waste water can – and should — be safely put to productive use. More info at http://fao.org
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Fabrice Boule of the Geneva-based journalism organization Media21 tells a community meeting in Ticho, Ethiopia, the importance of exposing international reporters to issues like water and sanitation.
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National WASH movement coordinator for Ethiopia describes the challenges – and importance – of working with journalists on water issues. More info at www.wateraidethiopia.org
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Tesfaye Wolde-Mibret, Ethiopia’s representative on Nile Basin Initiative, sees potential for cooperation, not conflict. More info at www.nilebasin.org
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Ethiopian Minister of Water Adugna Jebessa describes origin of Nile Basin Initiative. More info at www.nilebasin.org
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National news agency (BSS) journalist Saiful Islam of Dakka on what he has learned from encounter with water and sanitation issues in Ethiopia — and a lesson in sanitation he brings to community of Ticho.
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Zeleke Nigani, head of hygiene and sanitation for Ethiopian NGO, talks about eco-san toilets and why, in his view, they’re better suited to rural areas with land than for crowded urban areas.
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Swedish engineer Gunder Edstrom describes the science and management of the eco-san toilet, designed with the purpose of transforming a family’s bodily waste into rich and useful fertilizer.
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Teshome Gebre, country representative for Carter Center in Ethiopia, talks about success in eradicating guinea worm and describes community-based work on ending scourge of blindness form trachoma. More info at http://cartercenter
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Ethiopian social scientist Almaz Tereffe and her husband, Swedish engineer Gunder Edstrom, describe the eco-san toilet in their Addis Ababa home, using their own urine and fecal waste to create a lush garden of flowers and vegetables — and a powerful lesson on unexpected resources close to home.
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At World Water Forum FAO Director General Jacques Diouf says local steps come first. More info at http://fao.org
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Environmental reporter for the Sacramento Bee talks about lessons of water and sanitation projects in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for his readers back home.
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Broader lessons from effort to resolve water-use disputes in the Berki river catchment of northeastern Ethiopia. More info at http://wateraidet.org
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At the World Water Forum, Vesella Monta calls for more focus on harvesting rain. More info at http://irha-h2o.org
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Director General of UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization says he doesn’t know why senior government officials from around the world skipped the 5th World Water Forum but that he’s glad he came. More info at http://fao.org.
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Kate Fogelberg of Water for People makes the case for eco-san toilets, and other fresh ideas, at the World Water Forum. More info at http://waterforpeople.org
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An Indian NGO is working to replace flush toilets in rural India with more sustainable EcoSan Toilets, which use less water and naturally process human waste into fertilizers and pesticides.
www.humana-india.org
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Founder of WaterPartners International describes the experiences that got him started. More info at http://water.org
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Dutch water activist on the unequal burdens borne by women and girls. More information at http://www.genderandwater.org/page/4566
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Radio journalist Winifred Onyimbo says water issues on the back seat in Kenya media coverage.
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A Pakistani journalist on the underreported role of water resources in the Kashmir conflict.
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Kenyan water activist on the battle over a big dam on river flowing into Lake Turkana. More information at
www.friendsoflaketurkana.org
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John Sauer of Water Advocates on the push by activists at World Water Forum to declare water a basic human right. More information at http://wateradvocates.org
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John Sauer of Water Advocates puts focus on health consequences of water and sanitation isssues. More information at http://wateradvocates.org
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Head of Stockholm International Water Institute says delivery systems, not supply, are at the root of global water crisis. More information at http://www.siwi.org/
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Canadian Ron Denham chairs Rotary International’s Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action Group (WASRAG). More information at www.wasrag.org
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Sam Parker, CEO of Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor, says status and privacy are at least as important as health in marketing clean water and sanitation to the urban poor. More information at http://www.wsup.com
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Media21’s leadership in bringing journalists to the World Water Forum. More information at Media21.org
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Global Post correspondent Bill Dowell describes the coming crunch on global water, and how journalism in crisis compounds the challenge. More information at GlobalPost.com
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Journalist Manlin Xiong of China Central Television describes China’s approach to public/private work on water issues. More information at CCTV
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David Crosweller is a leader in the movement to spread the use of eco-sanitation toilets worldwide. More information at wherevertheneed.org
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Claire Lyons describes Pepsico Foundation’s programs on water.
More information on Pepsico Foundation’s Coalition Pledges
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Title: Why PSI now focuses on water, too
Sally Cowal explains why Population Services International, an organization long known for promoting use of contraceptives, now focuses its attention on water, too. More information at PSI.org
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Tajikistan journalist Munawar Shohinovnamov talks about the water issues in a country whose main source of water, glacial runoff, is fast disappearing.
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John Pasch, Asia regional water policy adviser for U.S. AID, says enactment of the Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act among reasons for stepped-up American focus on addressing water and sanitation issues worldwide. More information on USAID and the Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act
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Togo radio journalist Francois Agmegnignon says the test of government water policy is whether public needs are met.
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