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Mission Three - Imagine

It is Oct. 6, 2020 and my daughter's 30th birthday! I am very excited, because she will be flying home from Africa to spend her birthday with us.

After work I will run home to do a hurried last-minute cleaning of our house (which runs on a combination of macrobiofuel for the HVAC and solar power for the lights, ect.). Then, I will rush to the bakery in my car (which runs on the fulvic acid from humate) to pick up the cake. By the time I get home and prepare the meal, she will just be…

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Added by Sarah Tenney on September 29, 2012 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Midomo

During my search for an innovative clean water project I found lots of creative ideas of conditioning polluted water. In my eyes one of the most sustainable projects is Midomo, a water purifier on wheels. The project is inspired by the fact that the average daily distance a person in Africa has to walk to collect water is 3.7 miles (about 6 kilometers). Midomo is a 50 liter water tank on wheels including a filter system powered by their rotation. In fact there is no external energy source…

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Added by Matthias Kauke on May 20, 2012 at 11:11pm — No Comments

Haiti Water project

The Haiti water project is a organisation that want to provide clean water for communities in Haiti. One well or cistern can provide fresh water for around 1,000 people.

A little village in Haiti, for example, lost about 20 people because of ch***ra. The village has access to a river, but there is no clean drinking water. Thanks to the Haiti water project the village got a cistern to clean the water. People are now able to drink save water!

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Added by Teresa Klug on May 20, 2012 at 12:07pm — No Comments

LEARN4

In my opinion we are just as wasteful with our water as with our food. Therefore, i would begin to save as much water as we can by ourselves. You have to ask yourself if you really doing all you can to conserve water, our most precious resource! Here are some simple ways you may not have thought of.

You can go through these points beyond or watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ21EMkLRFo

Six easy ways to save…

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Added by Kim Gross-Hardt on May 16, 2012 at 12:22pm — 3 Comments

University of Cambridge's solution for the Hult Global Case Challenge

Water.org is a fairly large and influential organization that launches many water projects around Africa to supply clean water and build water infrastructure in developing countries. A challenge called "Hult Global Case Challenge" was launched to provide ideas for the funding of Water.org projects. The students of the University of Cambridge have come up with a very creative solution for the funding of water projects in Africa for Water.org. The plan included using mobile phone use as a…

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Added by Jiou Choi on April 14, 2012 at 3:18pm — No Comments

Live like the Globe does

Here in the USA, we take having water for granted. We know that if we forget to bring some water, we can always buy bottled water in a vending, machine store, etc.



I would prohibit the sale of all water bottles for a week leading up to the day. Therefore, Americans will appreciate the necessity of water and will hopefully become more grateful for it.



Thousands of people die each year because they do not have access to clean water. A small tribulation that makes water a… Continue

Added by Jennifer Ann Stupak on May 20, 2011 at 5:41am — No Comments

Being an Advocate

Sometimes I think we, as a society, sweep things under the rug because we are uneducated or prefer to be ignorant. I believe that knowledge and education are the key to understanding and creating innovation.



When I discovered the water.org website for my LEARN objective, I came across tons of interesting information and facts that inspired me to educate my peers.



Sometimes we don't feel an urgence to solve problems because we are unaware of their existence. Such was the… Continue

Added by Jennifer Ann Stupak on May 20, 2011 at 5:15am — No Comments

Breaking: New Currency in the Works for Phoenix

Early this morning, a concealed group of traders gathered in downtown Phoenix, Arizona to begin negotiations on how to unveil their latest creation. These mysterious scientists have reportedly found a way to reclaim a natural resource that was previously abundant, but no longer exists anywhere in the world. They say it was once used to sustain all life on Earth, but now it will be a new form of currency for the city that will improve public health, spark innovation, and facilitate economic…

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Added by John M. Quick on April 7, 2011 at 4:02pm — No Comments

Spreading the Word About Water: Evan Abramson and Carmen Lopez

Crowdsourced funding is an up and coming phenomenon that I am interested in. I went to Kickstarter to see what projects people were starting related to water crises. There, I found Evan Abramson's and Carmen Lopez' doc**entary about how Jean Charles Island in Louisiana, USA is rapidly eroding into the Gulf of Mexico. Since I find this topic very interesting and think it is something that a lot of people can learn from, I decided to chip… Continue

Added by John M. Quick on April 3, 2011 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Water Crisis in Arizona and Solar Desalinization

Here in Arizona, the water crisis is an important issue that needs to be addressed today and continually addressed into the future. Arizona is home to the sixth most populated city in the U.S., the most populated university, and the…

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Added by John M. Quick on April 3, 2011 at 5:36am — 2 Comments

World Water Day 2020

Our challenge for World Water Day 2020 is to live a typical day, but simultaneously witness how much water we use in our everyday routines and create a reusable water source for the next day. To accomplish this, we all will put stoppers in our bathtubs, kitchen and bathroom sinks, basins, or whatever we might run water through on a daily basis. Starting in the morning and ending at bedtime, every time you use water on this day, be sure that it collects in your repositories. Individuals are… Continue

Added by John M. Quick on April 3, 2011 at 2:49am — No Comments

Crowdsourcing Pure Water

My challenge for everyone on World Water Day 2020 would be to host a classroom challenge across the world asking students of all ages, grades and nationalities to create their own inventions, projects or ideas to purify, filter, access, recycle, collect or transport water or otherwise address a water crisis issues.



Then on Water Day, there would be massive worldwide events where the students could demonstrate their projects. Maybe some would get picked up for funding in places where… Continue

Added by Soni Pitts on May 13, 2010 at 5:02am — No Comments

Uncultured Project FTW

For my ACT4 challenge, I spread the word about the Uncultured Project, which is basically just this one guy (Shawn Ahmed) who moved to Bangladesh to see if he could help. He uses the power of the web and crowdsourcing to generate funds and interest for life saving projects like providing clean water, mosquito netting medicines and other things to the people he lives and works with.



Check out his YouTube channel here:… Continue

Added by Soni Pitts on May 13, 2010 at 4:38am — No Comments

Nerdfighters Unite for Clean Water

Here's an awesome video about a guy who called on the power of Nerdfighters across the country to help him provide access to clean water for a village. The money they raised built a pond sand-filter that provides clean water to people who had been previously forced to drink either unfiltered pond water or heavy-metal-contaminated well water.



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Added by Soni Pitts on May 13, 2010 at 4:04am — No Comments

Imagine4: Happy Water Day!

On Water Day 2020, as the sun rises, EVOKE agents all over the developed world are setting up wells. The wells are huge stands in the centers of towns where volunteers wait with different sized weights. Hundreds of thousands of people who have running water in their houses are going to use the wells today.



As the sun rises a few adventurous souls arrive first. They come with their buckets and the volunteers help to load them with weights. For each person in their family the participant… Continue

Added by Hanna Brady on May 12, 2010 at 6:25am — No Comments

Imagine4: Happy Water Day!

On Water Day 2020, as the sun rises, EVOKE agents all over the developed world are setting up wells. The wells are huge stands in the centers of towns where volunteers wait with different sized weights. Hundreds of thousands of people who have running water in their houses are going to use the wells today.



As the sun rises a few adventurous souls arrive first. They come with their buckets and the volunteers help to load them with weights. For each person in their family the participant… Continue

Added by Hanna Brady on May 12, 2010 at 6:23am — No Comments

ancient civilizations..

An ancient civilization...with many secrets of survival, carries on...

Petra the rose red city, one of the 7th wonders of the world, was a civilization that had their own water channels, all the way from the top of the mountains…

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Added by Reem N Bsaiso on May 11, 2010 at 4:48pm — No Comments

World Water Day 2020

It will be a surprising sight to see a river in the Sahara (big enough to locate on Google Earth), but this is exactly what will be on the news in 2020. That's because it's World Water Day.



A humanmade "river" will be created that consists entirely out of clean water (in celebration of inventions like the Lifesaver Bottle (www.… Continue

Added by Rick van der Pluijm on May 10, 2010 at 10:36pm — No Comments

World Water Day Event

This would be an event similar to a sponsored marathon run, in which competitors would get sponsors to donate based on the amount of water that they can move. The event would be a water transportation race, where the goal is to move as much clean drinking water as possible, using methods currently being employed in Africa. This will spread awareness by showing what people currently have to go in some parts of the world, to obtain something as essential and fundamental as clean drinking water.… Continue

Added by Joseph Couture on May 9, 2010 at 9:38pm — No Comments

Harvest rain

I just found a great project oriented to harvest water.In essence, harvesting water means

harvesting the rain.



Click Here A campaign for participatory, equitable and decentralised paradigm

for water management with the objective of making water everybody's

business.




For example, in India, the monsoon is a deluge. Flash… Continue

Added by Yamil Darío Santoro on May 9, 2010 at 7:22am — No Comments


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