Today is World Water Day, kicking off World Water Week!
I believe the world was quite lovely when I arrived, and I'd like to see it just as nice, or better, when I leave. So, I want to share some resources with you.
The following is cut and paste directly from the Loudoun Water blog "Water We Thinking":
Celebrating World Water Day This Week
For this week's post, I thought I share an email I received this morning from the folks at Tapped (a documentary that aims to change our collective minds about tap water - in a good way). The following is a direct re-post from their email:
Ever wondered how we get Tap Water? Check out this story from the Washington Post for Kids:
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We at Tapped feel that one day is not enough to do justice to all the water issues that deserve our attention. As a result we have turned Water Day into Water Week and will take the next 5 days to address a different water theme each day. Come back every day to see the newest videos, public service announcements and guest columns we’ll post here daily.
Today is a day that will go unnoticed by far too many – March 22 is World Water Day. It’s a day sanctioned by the United Nations to bring awareness to the fact that by 2030, two-thirds of the world will lack access to clean drinking water. The severity of this crisis has prompted the United Nations to conclude that water scarcity will be the chief constraint to increased food production in the next few decades. The threat to water resources stands as one of the major crises facing the planet. Unfortunately World Water Day hasn’t achieved the same visibility as Earth day... not yet anyway. We hope all that will change after today.
The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns.
Please join us in a campaign to raise the awareness of the severe water crisis we are facing in America and around the world. Currently more than one out of six people lack access to safe drinking water - that number will only increase unless we do something about it now.
LESS THAN 1% OF THE WORLD’S FRESH WATER IS READILY ACCESSIBLE FOR HUMAN USE
Water is something so many of us take for granted. We think it’s available in unlimited supplies, yet 20 percent more water than is now available will be needed to feed the additional three billion people who will be alive by 2025.
VISITwww.tappedthemovie.com to sign legislation that protects our water supplies, repairs our infrastructure, and keeps water a public right rather than a commodity that can be bought and sold like any other article of commerce.
SHAREour videos and editorials with your friends, family and loved ones... This week, the Tapped website will feature celebrity guest columns by Ed Begley Jr and David de Rothschild, a public service announcement by Grammy Winner Jack Johnson, plus daily videos and bonus clips from the film.
READ our water saving tips and daily blog to find out how small changes you make will have a big impact.
“There is enough water for human need but not for human greed...” www.tappedthemovie.com
Stephanie Soechtig
Director, Tapped
*Forward this to anyone you love*
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Ever wondered how we get Tap Water? Check out this story from the Washington Post for Kids:Big into Social Media (or not)?
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