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On World Water Day: Water and Sanitation Receiving High Level Political Attention

March 18, 2010

Posted by Heather Allen in Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
adaptation, climate, obama, sanitation, secretaryclinton, worldwaterday

Monday, March 22nd 2010 is recognized by the United Nations as World Water Day, a time to raise awareness of the global water crisis and focus on the solutions.  The challenge is tremendous, almost 900 million people lack safe drinking...

Retired military general and young creative protestors agree: The US must help the world’s poor adapt to climate change

October 16, 2009

Posted by Heather Allen in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
adaptation, climate, copenhagencountdown, energyandclimate2009, senate

Yesterday a Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee held a hearing to discuss helping the "world's most vulnerable nations" to respond to the droughts, floods and refugees created by climate change. In general, the Senators and witnesses agreed that the US should...

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