Friday, September 3, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Breakout! [THINK WATER]
What if you had to walk a kilometre to get water to brush your teeth? What a nightmare! In some copuntries, people have to walk a total distance of 14, 000 km every year just to collect water. Find out how you can make a difference.
Water Wars - Think
Veronica Lake, a Michigan-based environmental activist, has noted that corporations acquire the world's water by three major methods: a) by "water mining" the underground aquifers, or deep sources of many of the world's streams or rivers; b) by leasing state and government water systems and collecting revenues; and c) by "managing" city water systems.
Water Wars
There is a difficulty when trying to deal with any problem on a global scale. one person can give a solution but two people will bring an argument. now multiply it.
everyone knows they should change but nobody will do it first and everyone wants to be last.
re: fossil fuels. i love the idea that the human race discovered fire for energy thousands of years ago and still haven't moved on.
Running For Water
Running For Water from polly green on Vimeo.
1 in 5 people suffer from the lack of safe drinking water. In 2007, 21 people ran over 15,000 miles on a non stop, 3 month, around the world running relay to help raise money and awareness for this life threatening issue.
Facing Water Crisis in Machhar Colony
Amar Guriro, a Karachi based journalist, and a WaterAid fellow, has named Machar Colony “The town of miracles”. As we walk through piles of rubbish surrounding children who use the streets as a playground, he explains that surviving here is only possible by the appearance of small miracles.
A major sewage drain passes through Karachi's largest slum settlement called Machar Colony, home to around 700.000 people of different nationalities including Afghans, Bangladeshis, Biharis and Burmese, among others.
As Machar Colony is an illegal slum settlement, government departments do not provide even the most basic facilities like gas, electricity or potable water. The open drain, blocked under a thick layer of garbage, is also the passageway for potable water supply pipes. Residents have managed to connect pipes to the main water pipeline across the main road beside the colony from where they can then distribute the water to underground storage tanks.
To get rid of the garbage all around, people often set it on fire and, often, the sewage water then mixes with the drinking water supply through the melted plastic pipes. Due to this situation, the majority of children of this colony suffer from viral infections, respiratory disorders and waterborne diseases.
Facing Water Crisis - Machar Colony from Balazs Gardi on Vimeo.
A major sewage drain passes through Karachi's largest slum settlement called Machar Colony, home to around 700.000 people of different nationalities including Afghans, Bangladeshis, Biharis and Burmese, among others.
As Machar Colony is an illegal slum settlement, government departments do not provide even the most basic facilities like gas, electricity or potable water. The open drain, blocked under a thick layer of garbage, is also the passageway for potable water supply pipes. Residents have managed to connect pipes to the main water pipeline across the main road beside the colony from where they can then distribute the water to underground storage tanks.
To get rid of the garbage all around, people often set it on fire and, often, the sewage water then mixes with the drinking water supply through the melted plastic pipes. Due to this situation, the majority of children of this colony suffer from viral infections, respiratory disorders and waterborne diseases.
Facing Water Crisis - Machar Colony from Balazs Gardi on Vimeo.
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