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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


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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.


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Comment by william on April 14, 2010 at 1:48pm
Did you know restaurants are forced to filter there tap water? Which takes the bacteria from the water allowing us to recycle
Comment by Soroush on April 14, 2010 at 12:58am
@troy stapley: storing water is good, but what about those who live in flats? thats not possible
Comment by Jake Golvin on April 13, 2010 at 6:03pm
I think that water security is very important and people need it to live. This alliance will help everyone that drinks water around this area and hopefully makes a different. We all need water security and hopefully we get it.
Comment by Khayalethu Kuphu on April 13, 2010 at 9:27am
To further contribute to the water security efforts I would learn and practise water savings tips and techniques and try to teach others.
Comment by nomadHAR on April 10, 2010 at 11:59pm
in addition to the very creative solutions that agents are finding and developing, i think it is important to remember one very important thing.

access to water is a HUMAN RIGHT. access to a necessity of LIFE should not be bought and sold for profit.
Comment by nomadHAR on April 10, 2010 at 11:58pm
in addition to the very creative solutions that agents are finding and developing, i think it is important to remember one very important thing.

access to water is a HUMAN RIGHT. access to a necessity of LIFE should not be bought and sold for profit.
Comment by Zealous Sunflower on April 9, 2010 at 7:05pm
I made alliance with Global Water Challenge!!

http://www.globalwaterchallenge.org/warriors/warriors-home.php
Comment by Micheal Jason Wilson on April 8, 2010 at 2:38am
Caroll down the page had an evoke waste manegement thing the idea sounds wounderful and i promote it.
Comment by Micheal Jason Wilson on April 8, 2010 at 2:37am
They have made a new technology that will filter water safely and effeciently. Its a packet of grain, or some type of sand. This "sand" will deteeriate (sry bad spelling) any solid other than water and human skin. In test it took out grass, feces, and even dirt. So what about chemicals, it was proven to take out the bacteria before any solid. I think this is very efficent with only one obvious problem, distributing without any interferance before and after the distributation of this new, unammed, and efficent product.
Comment by Troy Stapley on April 5, 2010 at 6:05pm
The best way for me to make a difference in the short term is to spread the word about storing drink water. If water suddenly became scarce or unavailable, what would you and your family do? An easy way to prepare for an emergency like this is to store your own water in water barrels. The barrels I came across are used soft drink storage barrels available for cheap online.
http://www.bayteccontainers.com/rechigdenpol.html
I joined a group of people who made a large order (thus making it even cheaper). I paid around $15 a barrel and store two of them along the side of my home. I feel much more secure knowing that when needed, I can use the water I have saved.
Comment by Anthoulla Themistokleous on April 3, 2010 at 10:21pm
I went to http://www.waterforpeople.org/ and I think that this orginaztion is very inpiring and I think kids my age all over the world should be more involved in the worlds water security. I feel that the more people are more are aware of the water security maybe more people can join ang get invovled to make a difference. What I'm going to do to make a difference is inform my classmates and fellow peers about this orginaztion and hopefully they can join to make a difference in the world. They don't know how many children and families are dying everyday from contaminated water that has so much chemicals and bacteria that kills them. They also dont know that water contamination or water secuirty is one of the leading causes of death all around the world and they should be happy that they have the ability to drink clean water everyday. I know they don't feel sypathetic about it but maybe apathetic.
Comment by Riko Kamachi on April 3, 2010 at 5:22pm
Members of Kiva.org may be interested to know that there is a group asking for a loan to buy medicine for a pharmacy located in the slums of Santo Domingo, where water and electricity are unreliable. http://www.kiva.org/lend/190775 Also, you might be interested in joining the EVOKE lender team on Kiva: http://www.kiva.org/team/urgent_evoke
Comment by Carol Mendenall on April 1, 2010 at 7:22pm
We should have an entire EVOKE for garbage/waste management. So many communities are effected by a lack of disposal and others are creating a mess by producing more waste then necessary(lack of recycling).

Slums in many major cities through out the world have a slums area filled to capacity with waste.

On water; the hippo carrier seems great. I wonder on cost and getting the word out so they are readily available. I often wonder what we could do to introduce help groups to each other, create a network, so if one team finds that their project wouldn't work in an area, they know who to call with a workable project. I would also like to see this network to make sure all areas are getting reached. This way someone can analyze if we have too many in Indonesia or in a major city in Cambodia, etc?
Comment by Giuseppe Cotugno on April 1, 2010 at 5:33am
The work funded by Water 1st in Ethiopia is unique, and we believe it will serve as a world-wide model for sustainable, community-managed water projects. In order to have a larger and more sustainable impact on the water, sanitation, health, natural resource and economy, our Ethiopian projects are part of a comprehensive master plan for each watershed.

The water projects involve several different water delivery technologies depending on the hydro-geology of the beneficiary community: spring-fed piped water systems to public water points or hand-pump systems. Individual households also construct pit latrines. Additional facilities include gender-specific showers, laundry-washing stations, and cattle troughs, so that boys no longer have to spend hours daily walking the cattle to watering h***s.
Comment by Giuseppe Cotugno on April 1, 2010 at 5:28am
Here's a story of how one Changemaker is turning trash into treasure:

Bangladesh has a garbage problem. Dhaka, a city of about 10 million has a particularly big garbage problem. Of the 3,500 tons of trash dumped each day, only half is picked up by the city. The rest is left to lie in the open streets of slums, marketplaces, vacant lots and riverbanks, attracting rats, clogging drains and threatening serious disease.

http://www.changemakers.com/en-us/issues/186
Comment by Giuseppe Cotugno on April 1, 2010 at 5:16am
Value Proposition: For most of us, clean water comes with the twist of a faucet. But for 1.1 billion people, access to water requires hard work: hours of walking, waiting in long queues and heavy lifting. In rural Africa, it is often necessary to walk between 5-10 miles or more every day to fetch water, either from village taps, rivers, lakes or ditches. The time spent fulfilling this basic need keeps many children out of school, and prevents women from carrying out other important household tasks and income-generating activities. Collecting water can be dangerous too. The traditional method - carrying a 5 gallon water bucket balanced on the head - can severely damage the spine, causing severe pain and leading to complications during childbirth. In some countries, walking to find water exposes people to physical dangers, including land mines. The Hippo Water Roller is an innovative water transportation tool designed to alleviate the problems associated with lack of easy access to water. The Hippo’s smart design allows water to be placed inside its "wheel," transforming 200 pounds of water to an effective weight of just 22 pounds. A removable water filter screws in and out, so that water can either be filtered for drinking, or used as is for watering gardens or washing. A Hippo makes it possible to collect 24 gallons of water- five times the amount possible using traditional methods - in less time and much more easily. The Hippo Water Roller creates lasting social change by bringing water to the people and reducing the daily burden of water collection for women and children, giving them the time to pursue income-generating opportunities, attend school more regularly and carry out other important household tasks. to learn more, visit www.hipporoller.org
Comment by Giuseppe Cotugno on April 1, 2010 at 5:14am
mmmmm.. mumble mumble...
Comment by Dharma Dog on April 1, 2010 at 1:28am
Water Visionary - Dr. John Todd - Ecomachine.

Comment by Diana Zhapa on April 1, 2010 at 12:06am
That is so true water is mostly contain of bacteria.
Comment by Carol Mendenall on March 31, 2010 at 12:39am
That is so true. Bacteria carried in water is killing people from symptoms as curable as diarrhea. Liveearth sounds great.

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