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Access to drinking water around the world – in five infographics

How many people have access to clean and safe water? Where do they get it from, and how much do…

8 years ago

This is amazing – Eva got the clean water she demanded!

Eva Tolage, a young activist from Tanzania, launched Stand With Eva back in February 2015 and since then has been…

8 years ago

3 ways to improve water supplies in small towns

Photo: a public faucet that serves 1,000 families in el Alto, Bolivia. Photo credit: Stephan Bachenheimer / World Bank Small…

8 years ago

This sister earth now cries out to us –Pope Francis

Pope Francis makes a religious, ethical, humane, scientific, and practical case for stewardship of this earth and its waters, with…

8 years ago

Choosing water over gold: El Salvador bans metallic mining

Deep divisions mark El Salvador: between left and right, rich and poor, gangs and police. Yet last week, when the…

8 years ago

Urgent need to manage water more sustainably, says UN report

© Cajetan Barretto The Report is published by the World Water Assessment Programme, which is hosted by UNESCO, on behalf…

8 years ago

How do we prevent today’s water crisis becoming tomorrow’s catastrophe?

“Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” In these lines, Samuel Taylor Coleridge made a prescient point: while seawater…

8 years ago

Water is more than a strategic resource. We need to acknowledge that

This has been a long time coming. The changing of the guard on the 38th floor of the United Nations…

8 years ago

Mahlagha Mallah: Mother of Iran’s Environment

Mahlagha Mallah, known as the “mother of Iran’s environment,” has devoted her life to raising awareness of environmental issues in…

8 years ago

Nature Is Speaking – Ian Somerhalder is Coral Reef

This short video features poetically beautiful images of coral reef and many of its creatures. the video message concludes by…

8 years ago