Browse Sites By Tag: water
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From: Sonnenkind
Categories: Lifestyle
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storyofstuff.org — The Story of Stuff Project’s mission is to build a strong, diverse, decentralized, cross-sector movement to transform systems of production and consumption to serve ecological sustainability and social wellbeing. Our goals are to amplify public discourse on a diverse set of sustainability issues and to facilitate the growing Story of Stuff community’s involvement in strategic efforts to build a more sustainable and just world.
freepoverty.com — It is a game in which you are testing your geographic knowledge and for every correct answer you donate cups of water! :)
flowthefilm.com — A great documentary to raise awareness about water privatisation. It's a little bit one-sided, but definitely worth the watch! It was screened on the 10th of Dec 2008 to the UN as part of its 60th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights.
charitywater.org — charity: water is a non-profit bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations.
flowthefilm.com — # Of the 6 billion people on earth, 1.1 billion do not have access to safe, clean drinking water.
(www.charitywater.org)
# The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency currently does not regulate 51 known water contaminants. (www.foodandwaterwatch.org)
# While the average American uses 150 gallons of water per day, those in developing countries cannot find five.
(www.charitywater.org)
# The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns.
(www.water.org)
# According to the National Resources Defense Council, in a scientific study in which more than 1,000 bottles of 103 brands of water were tested, about one-third of the bottles contained synthetic organic chemicals, bacteria, and arsenic. (www.nrdc.org)
# Water is a $400 billion dollar global industry; the third largest behind electricity and oil.
CBS News, FLOW.
# There are estimates that from five hundred thousand to seven million people get sick per year from drinking tap water. Erik Olson, Deputy Staff Director of Barbara Boxerʼs Environmental and Public Works Committee (EPW), FLOW.
# Californiaʼs water supply is running out – it has about 20 years of water left in the state.
Maude Barlow, author of Blue Covenant and co-author of Blue Gold, National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians, FLOW.
# There are over 116,000 human-made chemicals that are finding their way into public water supply systems.
William Marks, author of Water Voices from Around the World, FLOW.
# In Bolivia nearly one out of every ten children will die before the age of five. Most of those deaths are related to illnesses that come from a lack of clean drinking water.

