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Born in September.
Posted in charitable giving, drinking water, entrepreneurship, third world assistance on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What Michael Birch Did after Selling Bebo and How He Thinks You Should Celebrate Your Birthday
Posted in charitable giving on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Charity:Water’s accountability and simplicity of purpose has made it a popular charity in New York, Hollywood and increasingly the Valley. Here’s the value proposition: One-out-of-six-people on the planet doesn’t have access to clean drinking water. $5,000 buys an African village a well. Every dime you donate, goes to these wells. You can even watch the [...]
Innovative toilets flush away disease, not water: Scientific American Blog
Posted in pollution, third world assistance on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Perhaps its somehow easier to talk about infectious disease than toilets. But the unfortunate truth is that more children die every year from illnesses caused by poor water and sanitation than from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.
Bindeshwar Pathak has made it his lifes mission to do something about it. Over the last four decades, [...]
Debating Just How Much Atrazine Is Safe in Your Water Glass – Series – NYTimes.com
Posted in drinking water, environmental policy, pesticides, tap water, water facts, water testing on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For decades, farmers, lawn care workers and professional green thumbs have relied on the popular weed killer atrazine to protect their crops, golf courses and manicured lawns.
But atrazine often washes into water supplies and has become among the most common contaminants in American reservoirs and other sources of drinking water.
Now, new research suggests that atrazine [...]
Hope Floats | GOOD
Posted in oceans, water facts on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is a widely held perception that the ocean is so large, so vast, and so resilient, that nothing humans can do can make a difference. However, another great discovery of the 20th century was that the ocean, like the land, is suffering from the impact of human beings, and we are suffering the consequences. [...]
Infographic: Ten Things You Should Know About Water | Circle of Blue | WaterNews
Posted in water facts on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
10 Things You Should Know:
1 – One drop of oil can make up to 25 liters (6.6 gallons) of water undrinkable.
2 – Seventy percent of the world’s water is used for agriculture, 22 percent for industry and 8 percent for domestic use. Low and middle income countries use 82 percent of their water for agriculture, [...]
blood:water mission
Posted in tap water, third world assistance on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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Bringing Water to India: a Dispatch from the Nonprofit World | GOOD
Posted in drinking water, tap water, third world assistance, water safety on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For more than 30 years, Gram Vikas has taken a unique approach to development work. For them, sanitation is the key to good health, and community participation is the key to sustainability. “Sanitation” meant toilets and showers here; “participation”—a year-plus of hard work. Junash said Gram Vikas’s proposal was initially met with some resistance, as [...]
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