Cleanwaterforum : A forum to discuss how to achieve universal access to safe, physically accessible, sufficient and affordable, clean water.

We set up this blog to discuss issues surrounding universal access to safe, physically accessible, sufficient and affordable clean water. These issues include, but are not limited to: 1) whether access to clean water should be enshrined as a fundamental human right; 2) how to respond to the increasingly prevalent treatment of water as a commodity rather than a public good (corporate social responsibility and water); 3) clean water as global health issue; 4) clean water as a poverty issue; 5) clean water as a global security issue; 6) clean water as a gender issue.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Water Water Everywhere, and Little to Drink in Kerela, India

http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IER20080713015052&Page=R&Title=Kerala&Topic=0
World Bank to finance 'Jalanidhi project' in Kerala, India. The World Bank has had a reputation of financing costly damming projects that have led to decreased water availability for individual users, though such projects do overwhelmingly benefit 1) agro-businesses and industries who are the major users, and 2) construction firms who build the dams and irrigation works.
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Unknown said...

Hi!
Speaking of clean water, have you heard about this amazing program implemented by the Unicef and Volvic to bring clean water for children in Ethiopia?

Check it out:
DRINK 1, GIVE 10

Thanks!

July 21, 2008 at 2:39 PM

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