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Quick and breezy recap of the population issue above. Below, Richard Cizek ponders the implications of population and climate change for an Evangelical Christian. Who could have predicted that access to family planning services would become “Topic A” in the race to the White House? Or that a “war on women” would ignite based on contraceptive coverage provided under the health care law approved by Congress and President Obama? Almost anything can happen in an election year. What’s next, the converging of women’s issues with energy and environmental policy?
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BBC News - Water map shows billions at risk of 'water insecurity'
The study maps water availability and quality down to the regional level Writing in the journal Nature, they say that in western countries, conserving water for people through reservoirs and dams works for people, but not nature. Instead, they say governments should invest in water management strategies that combine infrastructure with "natural" options such as safeguarding watersheds, wetlands and flood plains. The analysis is a global snapshot , and the research team suggests more people are likely to encounter more severe stress on their water supply in the coming decades, as the climate changes and the human population continues to grow. They have taken data on a variety of different threats, used models of threats where data is scarce, and used expert assessment to combine the various individual threats into a composite index. The result is a map that plots the composite threat to human water security and to biodiversity in squares 50km by 50km (30 miles by 30 miles) across the world.
Video summary of the World Water Day 2012 Ceremony in Rome, featuring FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva, UN-Water Chair and WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud and FAO Ambassador Anggun. There are 7 billion people to feed on the planet today and another 2 billion are expected to join by 2050. Statistics say that each of us drinks from 2 to 4 litres of water every day, however most of the water we ‘drink’ is embedded in the food we eat: producing 1 kilo of beef for example consumes 15,000 litres of water while 1 kilo of wheat ’drinks up’ 1,500 litres. When a billion people in the world already live in chronic hunger and water resources are under pressure we cannot pretend the problem is ‘elsewhere’. Coping with population growth and ensuring access to nutritious food to everyone call for a series of actions we can all help with:
World Water Day 2012 - Water and Food Security - 22nd March 2012
WORLD WATER DAY 2010 - 22.03.2010
Il faut aujourd’hui nourrir sept milliards de personnes à travers le monde, et probablement deux milliards de plus d’ici 2050. Selon les statistiques, nous consommons de 2 à 4 litres d’eau par jour. La majeure partie de l’eau que nous “buvons” est toutefois contenue dans les aliments que nous mangeons: la production d’un kilo de bœuf, par exemple, requiert 15 000 litres d’eau tandis que celle d’un kilo de blé exige 1 500 litres.
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The Story of Bottled Water (video) - Les Humains Associés Pasteboard
The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over five minutes, the film explores the bottled water industrys attacks on tap water and its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the mountains of plastic waste it produces. The film concludes with a call to take back the tap, not only by making a personal commitment to avoid bottled water, but by supporting investments in clean, available tap water for all. Our production partners on the bottled water film include five leading sustainability groups: Corporate Accountability International, Environmental Working Group, Food & Water Watch, Pacific Institute, and Polaris Institute.
Join host John Smith on blogtalkradio as he talks with Donna DiFrancesco from the City of Mesa about the development of the Water-Use It Wisely campaign in Arizona. Listen… Up to 70% of your household water use is outdoors. This is why it’s so important to ensure you are watering efficiently. Raise your hand if you adjust…
Water Conservation Tips, Facts and Resources | Water - Use It Wisely
Partout dans le monde, Veolia et Suez s'approprient la gestion de l'eau. Une enquête rigoureuse et engagée sur les dérives de l'utilisation de l'or bleu à des fins commerciales. En France, Veolia et Suez gèrent 80 % de l'approvisionnement en eau dans le cadre de partenariats public-privé (PPP) qui voient les communes rester propriétaires des infrastructures et déléguer l'exploitation aux entreprises privées. Mais alors que ce modèle rencontre un indéniable succès à l'étranger, de plus en plus de municipalités tentent de reprendre le contrôle de l'eau dans l'Hexagone. Recommunalisation Ce film passionnant retrace, documents à l'appui, le processus qui a conduit à l'abandon des régies publiques, encouragé par "le droit d'entrée" : une pratique consistant, pour les opérateurs privés, à mettre à disposition des communes une confortable somme d'argent afin de s'assurer la conversion au modèle du PPP.
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Before, Mrs. Bhuvaneswari's family had to spend time walking to find a place to go to the bathroom. Now they are able to use their own toilet and their time for better things.
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In July 2010, The Council of Canadians and the Blue Planet Project joined people around the world celebrating the end of a decade-long battle to have water and sanitation recognized as a human right at the United Nations General Assembly with the adoption of resolution 64/292 . But we knew it was only the beginning of the struggle to ensure water justice for all. In order to ensure that the newly recognized right served as a tool for social movements and frontline communities, Council of Canadians National Chairperson and Blue Planet Project founder Maude Barlow wrote and released the report: Our Right to Water: A People's Guide to Implementing the United Nations' Recognition of Water and Sanitation as a Human Right . [ Available in: English , English with Canadian Appendix , français , español , português ]
Blue Planet Project · Projet Planète Bleue · Proyecto Planeta Azul · Projeto Planeta Azul
In Cebu City, the Philippines, public sector workers like Zosimo Salcedo at the Metro Cebu Water District (MCWD) opposed Asian Development Bank financing that would purportedly increase the burgeoning city's water supply. The financing sounded like a water workers dream – more infrastructure funds spells more jobs. So why was Zosimo Salcedo opposing the funds?