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Silent Outrage
The water is clean, but the container is not. Piped in by gravity flow from over 20 miles away, this water has traveled far to get here only to be recontaminated in the very final stage before drinking. Containers like these were championed by government and large aid agencies as being better than open containers [...]
Flow
Award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century — The World Water Crisis.
Water Is Life
The human body is 70% water. A 3% loss of water can reduce a person’s ability work by 20%. For your average 60lb school-age child, that amounts to a standard nalgene-bottle full of water. Under exertion, the human body can sweat twice that in an hour. Now imagine sub-Saharan Africa, 90 to 110 degree heat [...]
World Water Crisis
United Nations Development Programme: read the full article. World water and sanitation crisis urgently needs a Global Action Plan A Global Action Plan under G8 leadership is urgently needed to resolve a growing water and sanitation crisis that causes nearly two million child deaths every year, says the 2006 Human Development Report, released here today. [...]
