Today Is World Water Day... What Will You Do?

[RestoreGore]

http://www.worldwaterday.org /

Today, March 22, is World Water Day. The theme for this year is sanitation. Every 15 seconds another child dies in this world from a waterborne disease due to lack of potable water and proper sanitation. This is the most crucial environmental crisis we face along with the climate crisis, and water shortages in many parts of our world due to lack of infrastructure, mismanagement of resources, and now climate change only lend to this crisis.

Please, take time today to do something to take action to save water and call for clean water for the children of our world. I will be sending letters to my Senators today and also sending a message to all of the presidential candidates to stand up for water and to make its conservation and availability and sanitation part of their environmental platforms, and that includes not supporting energy sources that pollute our waterways ( like coal and nuclear.)

Also, take a look at this site: http://www.water.org and consider pledging to give clean water to those in our world who need it. Water is our most precious resource. Water is life.

This is so close to my heart. I will talk about this everyday until people get sick of hearing it. It is the only way to get it out here. The simple truth: without water we die. Without the moral and poltical will to address this crisis as well as the climate crisis we will forever alter this planet for our children and other species, and that is simply not an option.

There is nothing more important than this. Without a planet we have nothing else. My letters are ready to send out and I am hoping to do a video on local water issues as soon as I get more free time. Water is a human right, and all children of this world deserve to live in a world at least having the water they need to survive.

This crisis is thankfully getting more exposure thanks to the UN, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, and others who are spreading the word, and also Al Gore who addressed it in An Inconvenient Truth and has talked about freshwater resources. For years people have been warning that we better start conserving this resource because it is even more precious than oil...and we are now getting closer to that tipping point as well.

We are one with the Earth. What we do to her we do to ourselves. We are seeing that much more with each passing day. What we then do with that knowledge will determine our future.

Thank you

[pokercat999]

1. Stop eating BEEF! It takes 2500 gallons of fresh water

to "produce" one pound of beef.

[Demeter]

2. Stop Having Children

Since the issue is closed for me now, anyway....

[peace13]

3. Kiss my RO filter and remind myself how much plastic

I do not haul to recycling and how nice it is not to have a big dirty truck deliver bottled water. Thanks for the reminder, I will search for other ways to conserve. peace, Kim

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. Drink beer - safer than the water.

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That's what I'm doin'

:toast: :hi:

[XemaSab]

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:patriot:

[bananas]

6. and dry unleavened bread

crackers, pretzels, ...

[mac2]

7. Join and support the Corporate Accountability International

group. www.StopCorporateAbuse.org.

Water issues are a big problem.

Here's a Republican...Mayor Rybak (Minn.,MN) protecting the public water system.

We had a man who worked for a filter company run for Mayor. Our town is tapped into a huge water aquifer. The people didn't trust him and elected all the new trustees but him.

Funding of $22 billion needed for water infrastructure projects nation wide. What we spend $220 billion a MONTH in Iraq alone? Yet we aren't concerned over our water to drink?

Get this...this administration doesn't care about winning the war. They care about profits only. The longer it lingers the more they make. McCain wants it to go on 100 years for profit and power.

We have to take the profit by corporations out of our water systems and lakes, etc. Are you going to do that Presidential and Congressional candidates?