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Water Crisis - Act
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Make an alliance with a water visionary.
Find someone who is already making a difference in the water crisis — and join forces to help them make a bigger difference.
Volunteer, donate, or spread the word If you were their EVOKE agent, what would you advise them to do to increase their impact? What can YOU do to help their work have a bigger impact? Find a way to connect and make a direct contribution, however you can.
If you're really inspired, and courageous, see if you can start a similar effort where you are. You won't get very far in just one week — but can you take the first step?
Here are some places to start your search for a water visionary.
Social Edge - water search
Water 1st - where we work
Ashoka - water innovation
Changemakers - water and sanitation challenge
Global Water Challenge - projects
Water for People Committees in North America
Your objective:
Make an alliance with a water visionary. Do something to further their water security efforts — and tell the network how you helped in a blog post, photo or video essay.This objective is worth +10 spark.
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Comment by Kennedy Suttle on October 31, 2012 at 2:59am
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Water For People is a wonderful organization. It helps people in developing countries improve the quality of life by supporting drinking water resources, sanitation facilities, and hygiene education programs. 783 million people don't have access to clean drinking water and 2.5 billion don't have clean facilities. Every day 6,000 people die from water-related illnesses, and the majority are children. In my opinion, I think that if we spend time making more organizations based on Water For People we could decrease the amount of unclean water.
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Comment by Brian Adam Smith on October 31, 2012 at 1:19am
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i would donate to multiple organizations. i would do this because i want to help the world change in their sanity of water and the amount of water people have.
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Comment by John Smith on October 31, 2012 at 12:16am
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Water for people is a great organization that improves the standard of living in developing countries that all over the world by giving clean water supplies, purifying waste water and improving sewage systems. They are world changes beacuse they help people everywhere. I will totally join forces with these guys!!!!!!
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I found Water for People. This orginization is a huge inspiration and makes a huge difference in the lives of many countries that need help. They make it known how serious other countries cases are and they try to replenish the water and lend a helping hand
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I found the Changemakers and they are globaly trying to help with water sanitation and make drinking water safer. They are accepting ideas for plans on how to stop it and so, maybe I'll give them some ideas.
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Comment by Zeba Huque on October 30, 2012 at 10:55pm
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Water For People helps people in developing countries improve quality of life by supporting the development of locally sustainable drinking water resources, sanitation facilities and hygiene education programs. I would help by donating in any possible way and try to not pollute water.
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Comment by Hannah Rose Fountain on October 30, 2012 at 10:48pm
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I already ave ties to an organization called Mundito that helps partly with water sanitation and helps to keep clean water out of sewage lines and helps to purify it for drinking. I donate to them sometimes so maybe I'll donate more often now!
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I would find a way so that we can pump for clean water but still let it replenish itself. I will also join a water security organization.
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I would do many things to help water security. I would probably find new ways to pump clean water from underground.
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I would donate to a local organization to help water security.
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Comment by Claudia Siatkowski on May 20, 2012 at 10:56pm
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Every German uses about 162 litre of water during the day. That means depicted a filled bathtub. One single toilet flush in the industrialised countries consumes as much water as one person in a developing country has at his/her disposal for washing, drinking and cooking per day. So this facts put me in a refelctive mood. One way of responding to this could be the use of special water-saving toilets and showers, repair of seals and use of rainwater could be only some small improvements. During the research I came across with some creative ideas which connect art and treatment of nature and natural resources.
For me particularly effective is the concept of the designer Yonggu Do, Dohyung Kim und Sewon Oh. Here the water consumption is particularly evident. Exactly 1 litre water fits inside this armature, sufficient for a quick handwash.
The theory being that we waste almost six liters of water and use only one, while washing hands. Once the stored one-liter is used up, you have to turn-off the tap till the next one liter fills up the tube.
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I found this add/shot dok**entary that a water company called Nika Water has done. It's very interresting.
Nika Water presents the "Water Crisis". This video represents the current problem facing millions of people around the world who suffer from lack of clean water and sanitation and are killed from water related diseases. Nika hopes to bring a voice to those who suffer by raising awareness and donating 100% of proceeds to communities in need.
to watch the video use this link; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy08iYpyhH0
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In the big city Aarhus in Denmark, they are sustainable, because they have a program called "Vand Vission 2100"
-In Aarhus all the water comes from the local waterwork, and the water is cleaned and re-used in a enviroment friendly way. Hopefully the rest of Denmark will follow, and become an environmentally friendly country!
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Comment by Simon Anthony on May 27, 2010 at 8:31pm
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Hardly visionary - but, I think, continually asking the water companies here in the UK to stop leaks, to measure the actual use of water in houses, to reduce the waste of water - will all add up. I have been trying this sort of thing for 20 years and when I started there was no talk of water meters or water saving washing machines, low water showers or even showers at all. All these things are slowly coming through, nudged along by millions of small pushes and one very big pull - the knowledge, the feeling that the way we are doing things at the moment is simply - stupid.
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Comment by Vicky Gramatowski on May 20, 2010 at 3:28am
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www.waterforpeople.org | Donations | Donate by mail
Donate by Mail
To donate by mail please send your donation to this address.
Water For People
6666 W. Quincy Ave.
Denver, CO 80235
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Seems like a good start, as far as helping the environment goes on this issue, would be to stop purchasing bottled water and start filtering our tap water. This would at least cut back on the plastic bottles that get tossed away.
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Comment by Diana Kolek on May 10, 2010 at 3:51pm
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I wish i knew the name of the organisation i saw on tv ,they had a brilliant water project
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Comment by kunat piboon DoDo on May 10, 2010 at 6:09am
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Just try to save the water by showering but not bathing it will save a lot of water. 55+ haha : )
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