Posts Tagged with ‘Blogging for Water’
MADRE, MADRE
Like many Palestinian women living in the Gaza Strip, 40-year-old Maryam struggles to provide safe drinking water for her family.
Israel has restricted the movement of people and goods into G...
Natural Resource Defense Council, NRDC
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is an intrepid organization with a simple mission: To safeguard the Earth — its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on wh...
Karen, Green Prophet
It takes 400 gallons of water to grow enough cotton for an ordinary t-shirt. A pair of jeans? That's 1,800 gallons. And we all know that while some women spend 6 hours every day to get drinking water,...
Lisa, George Washington University
While the right to water and the right of water may seem to be the same thing to many people, the two are extremely different. I recently had the opportunity to attend a conference on the right t...
Jonathan, Anderson School of Management at UCLA
You may be woman, but I can’t hear you roar. In fact, I can’t hear you at all.
Maybe it is because you don’t really have time. No one can blame you. But maybe if you, and the hundreds of mi...
Vanessa, UNFPA
Concerns about water scarcity are getting louder and more urgent every day. But what does water scarcity really look like on the ground? And what are people really doing about it?
Today, more tha...
John, Water Advocates
There is a photograph that travelers inevitably take when they go to a developing country -- a picture of a woman carrying a large container of water on her head. The woman's posture is ramrod strai...
Chris, K4Health
About one billion people are currently living without one of the most basic human rights, the right to access clean and safe drinking water. This inequity is not just tragic, but is also undermining p...
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