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Can water end the Arab-Israeli conflict?
Around three weeks ago on a late Tuesday morning, Israeli soldiers armed with a truck and a digger entered the Palestinian village of Amniyr and destroyed nine water tanks. One week later, Israeli...
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Water changes everything
When I started this blog several years ago these were the main areas of concern surrounding lack of access and potability of water in the world. And as with the climate crisis there have been many...
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How colonization and globalization perpetuate global poverty and slavery
Global poverty did not just happen. It began with military conquest, slavery and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals and forced labor. Today, the problem persists because of...
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Why the Earth may be running out of clean water
Earlier this month, officials in the South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu had to confront a pretty dire problem: they were running out of water. Due to a severe and lasting drought, water reserves in...
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Occupy Earth: Nature is the 99% too
What if rising sea levels are yet another measure of inequality? What if the degradation of our planet’s life-support systems -- its atmosphere, oceans, and biosphere -- goes hand in hand with the...
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We must reclaim our humanity to save our planet/water
The state of water in our world currently is endangered. Pollution, privatization, waste, climate change effects and lack of attention to this most crucial life crisis is bringing us to the brink as a...
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2011: bringing water to those who need it
Charity Water has been doing wonderful things to bring potable water to those who need it most. Over four thousand projects this year alone. In the coming years with climate change and pollution having...
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Water cyclists: an epic ride to raise awareness of a scarce resource
On July 4, 2010, Joost Notenboom and Michiel Roodenburg set off from Deadhorse, Alaska, on a more-than-18,000-mile journey to the southern tip of Argentina. Their chosen mode of transport: bamboo...
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Tell President Obama To Walk Away from Empty Promises of Fracked Shale Gas
In his State of the Union speech, President Obama lauded natural gas from shale as a key part of his clean energy plan. Fracking shale for natural gas is an intensive extractive process that has...
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2012-Celebrate Water
Water is one of my heart's passions in life. It's life, It's breath, the sheer majesty of its cascading torrents of wonder fill my heart with a joy and a respect for nature unlike anything else....
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World Water Day 2012- Water And Food Security
This Thursday, March 22, is World Water Day as designated by the UN and celebrated annually since 1993. This year's theme is Water And Food Security. This video presents a primer on this important...
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Biorhythms: World Water Day 2012: Water and food-saving our lifelines
Every year since 1993 the world has observed March 22 as World Water Day. It is a day set aside to raise awareness of the importance of water to our lives and to the ecosystems of our planet that give...
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Water Wars: Coming To A Country Near You?
http://www.policymic.com/articles/5872/water-wars-caused-by-scarcity-and-control...http://www.rt.com/news/water-conflict-terrorism-rivers-239/A report surfaced Thursday which was discussed by the US...
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Arizona senators working to take away Hopi/Navajo right to water for "time...
Mr. Kyl and Mr. McCain have introduced a bill known as the Navajo-Hopi Little Colorado River Water Rights Settlement, which would require the tribes to waive their water rights for “time immemorial” in...
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Last Call At The Oasis; The global water crisis
A new movie highlighting the importance of water to our lives and the global crisis we face with ways to address it. It is good to see movies like this being made especially regarding water. We use too...
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Soup and sustinence in the mountains of Bolivia
The air is thin at 3,650 meters (12,000 feet). My breathing gets heavier with every step, especially as I am using my limited supply of oxygen to both walk and speak with Fatima, a lovely mother of...
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Belo Monte dam suspended by Brazilian high court
Federal Judge Souza Prudente of the Federal Tribunal of Brazil's Amazon region suspended all work today on the Belo Monte Dam, invalidating the project's environmental and installation licenses. While...
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A World Without Water
A crime against humanity specifically aimed at the poor goes virtually unnoticed in our consciousness. It is the privitization of the world's water supply at a time when such actions only seek to...
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Women lack access to safe drinking water/sanitation
http://water-is-life.blogspot.com/2013/02/women-lack-access-to-safe-drinking-wat...Make no mistake that access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation is one of the most important factors...
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Without Water, Revolution
Without Water, RevolutionBy Thomas FriedmanExcerpt:"You can’t imagine the war here continuing for another year, let alone five. But when you feel the depth of the rage against the Assad government and...
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