Posts Tagged ‘Water’
A Look into the World of Water in Mali
The Malian village of Diatoula, Mali, a West African country with 4.9 million people, a third of the population, lacking safe water. But 75% of Mali’s people don’t have adequate sanitation. Tara Todras Whitehill, with WaterAid, angles her camera lens at state of water in villages throughout Mali, and across Western Africa, and how people, mostly…
Read MoreNo voice in Environmental Policy hurts Women
In 2010, government officials in Sri Lanka launched a $260 million rural water project in the Eastern and Central Provinces -and they made sure that women were at the helm. In one village, Talpotha, women have formed a management group that routinely visits houses connected to water pipes to ensure each home doesn’t exceed the…
Read MoreThe Water Filter that’s changing the Philippines
BioSand Filter (BSF), the company responsible for making its namesake product, has started installing their water filters in communities across the Philippines. In a country with 100 million people, over half of them do not have access to sanitary water. BSF is trying to change that. The filter is a cylindrical shaped vessel with a…
Read MoreThe Threat to Sacred Waters and Ways of Life for California Indigenous Communities
By: Sophie Sparksworthy, WEA Intern “Indigenous peoples have the right to the conservation and protection of the environment and the productive capacity of their lands or territories and resources.” — Article 29, UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples The physical health and cultural well-being of Indigenous communities are threatened by increasing environmental…
Read MoreThe Ripple Effect Is Real
by Gemma Bulos Question: When would the equation 20 x 222 = 4588? Answer: When you train 20 women how to build rainwater harvesting systems. They train 222 of their colleagues (84% of which were women). And together they build 31 tanks supplying water to 4588 people in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. Help us amplify…
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