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.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Maryland village threatened with loss of its water

The tiny village of Rosemont, MD, is suffering from a problem that is plaguing many American towns and cities - crumbling and decaying water infrastructure. Its pipes - laid down by the Federal Government more than 70 years ago are dilapidated and need a three million dollar overhaul which the village (pop. 600) cannot afford. The neighboring city of Brunswick which supplies their water will not pay for repairs, nor will the county.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/world/bal-id.scenes02nov02,0,2177684.story?page=2
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