Water plays a vital role in almost every environmental issue, from energy development to climate change to public health. World Water Day on March 22 is an international event founded by the United Nations in 1993 to recognize the importance of water to the nations and people of the world. Nearly one billion people around the world don't have clean drinking water and 2.6 billion still lack basic sanitation.
Posted January 26, 2012 by Elizabeth Shope in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, U.S. Law and Policy
With just two months before World Water Day on March 22, NRDC, CARE & WaterAid in America have published our annual report about how the United States is doing in implementing the recommendations we made last year to improve water...continued→
Posted January 26, 2012 by Heather Allen in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, U.S. Law and Policy
In his State of the Union Address on Tuesday night, President Obama spoke about economic equity and fairness. There may be no greater inequity among people than the disparity regarding access to clean and safe drinking water. Nearly 900 million people...continued→
Posted March 24, 2011 by Heather Allen in Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, The Media and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
On World Water Day, March 22 2011 people around the world celebrated clean water and explored solutions for the world’s biggest environmental health crisis – the lack of safe water and sanitation. Killing more children each year than AIDS, Malaria and...continued→
Posted March 22, 2011 by Heather Allen in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, U.S. Law and Policy
Today on World Water Day as people around the world celebrated, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Robert Zoellick President of the World Bank signed a broad agreement on water. The room was packed as Clinton presented the case for water...continued→
Posted March 22, 2011 by Barry Nelson in Living Sustainably, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Building Rivers Blog Series A New Era of California Water Solutions Santa Monica and Other Cities Increase Water Self-Reliance The Yolo Bypass - Hiding in Plain Sight A Million Toilets Can't Be Wrong World Water Day is an appropriate...continued→
Posted March 22, 2011 by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably
In honor of World Water Day, check out this neat video of how green infrastructure can simultaneously bring amenities into a neighborhood while helping keep polluted runoff out of waterways: Kaid Benfield writes (almost) daily about community, development, and the...continued→
Posted March 22, 2011 by Steve Fleischli in Health and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
One purpose of World Water Day is often – and rightly – to highlight the horrific consequences of inadequate water supply and sanitation around the world. Indeed, over a billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean water, and...continued→
Posted March 22, 2011 by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution, Living Sustainably
By and courtesy of my friend Dhiru Thadani: Move your cursor over the image for credit information. Kaid Benfield writes (almost) daily about community, development, and the environment. For more posts, see his blog's home page....continued→
Posted March 20, 2011 by Amanda Maxwell in Reviving the World's Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Guest-blogger Joy E. Stocke is founder and Editor-in-Chief of Wild River Review. She has published fiction, nonfiction and poetry, and has written about and lectured widely on her travels in Greece and Turkey. She lives part-time in Cabo Pulmo, Baja...continued→
Posted March 18, 2011 by Larry Levine in Curbing Pollution, Living Sustainably, U.S. Law and Policy
On Tuesday, March 22nd – in honor of World Water Day – I’ll be participating in an online panel discussion entitled “Cities and the Global Water Crisis: Managing a Vital Resource.” (Details and registration are available here.) I’ll be using...continued→
