Here are some more articles and resources for World Water Day.
Tear Fund: Make Life Flow: Water and Sanitattion Campaign
Joel Madden on the Tap Project
Tap Water – Clean Water For All
Reporting From the World Water Forum
Tapping into the water of life
Tear Fund Water Video from Uganda
World Water Day is 22 March 2009. Access to clean water is currently a great problem for about 1 Billion people world-wide. One-sixth of the world’s population has poor access to clean water.
Here are some resources to learn more and help solve the problem of access to clean water.
Action needed to avoid world water crisis, UN says
By Patrick Worsnip
UNITED NATIONS, March 12 (Reuters) – The world needs to act urgently to avoid a global water crisis due to increased population, rising living standards, dietary changes and more biofuels production, the United Nations warned on Thursday.
By 2030, nearly half of the world’s people will be living in areas of acute water shortage, said a report jointly produced by more than two dozen U.N. bodies and issued ahead of a major conference on water to be held in Istanbul next week.
The report, “Water in a Changing World,” made “clear that urgent action is needed if we are to avoid a global water crisis,” said a foreword by Koichiro Matsuura, head of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Climate Change Could Produce Millions of Environmental Refugees
Some 25 million people have already been forced to leave their homes due to environmental problems. That number, according to a report by Tearfund, a UK-based relief and development agency, could become as high as 200 million by mid-century as the impacts of climate change cause water shortages around the world.
Water: Overviews and Factsheets
Living Water Christian Mission
Global Water.Org which includes a video Dying of Thirst
Equip International Appropriate Technology Institute Water Technologies Course
Life Water International Technical Resource Library
World Vision: Global Water Shortage a Concern
AlertNet: FACTBOX-The world’s water and climate change
AlertNet: FACTBOX-Key facts on the world’s water supply
Put water centre stage, says UN report
World Vision UK Dirty Water Video
Similar Video from Charity Water shows how it would be if people in the US had to get their water the same as people who do not have access to clean water.
World Vision Water Sponsorship video
Global Policy Forum: Water in Conflict
Drinking at the Public Fountain: The New Corporate Threat to Our Water Supplies
Dried Up, Sold Out: How the World Bank’s Push for Private Water Harms the Poor
22 March 2009 is World Water Day
Here are some links for more information on this essential resource.
Dying for A Drink of Clean Water
Where clean water is a pipedream
Report: Billions of People Lack Clean Water and Sanitation
Righting Water Wrongs by ESA (pdf file)
World Vision Latest News ONE Poverty UNlocked
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