Are you sure you water doesn't need you?
As a former Appalachian, former water chemist, and former water utility consultant I am very passionate about helping those that live without the luxury of clean water.
So today I am starting a blog tag about clean water… and since many organizations don’t have blogs of their own… here are 5 organizations and 5 blogs:
Every year in March people from around the world bring light to the problem and organizations that support the dream of clean water
Another global organization that funds grants for water improvement projects around the globe.
If you think that everyone in the USA has clean water think again:
Mission opportunities to help build water systems… Appalachia is listed just after El Salvador and before Haiti
Did you know that people are taking the tops off of entire mountains to get at coal… think strip mining on steroids… and that is destroying the water ecology and threatening both people and flora and fauna… go to the bottom of the page to see how you can help.
Helping keep rivers and waterfront habitats clean and healthy in the Americas… not directly drinking water related… but if you surf through the related sites and see just how many states have trouble with rivers and lakes you have to wonder how much longer we have before it’s ALL our water that’s contaminated / more expensive to clean / harder to find.
Here are the blogs that I have tagged based on their past support of the above organizations.
3. Moose Poop on the Lawn [(A Pastor with a wandering Moose 
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4. Global Water Foundation on MySpace
5. PDX Green
BUT Please consider yourself Tagged!
What resources do you know about that support clean water?
How can we work together to end thirst in our lifetime?
Just because I am not aware of your passion for clean water don’t hold back!! Add a comment, write a post, and join the netweaving effort to help the fabric of resources save all our water!
New to a game of blog tag? Here is how it works:
1. Write a post on your blog tagging 5 online resources helping promote the fight for clean water.
2. Add a comment below linking to your post
3. Let those you tagged know that they are ‘it’ and encourage them to continue weaving our informational quilt.
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January 29, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Nancy Babyak
If you are in the Austin area Feb 12th, 2009 check out this great Tweet-up that will help fund clean water for all around the globe!
http://austin.twestival.com/2009/01/29/not-in-my-backyard/#comment-15
January 31, 2009 at 7:34 am
Andrew
Nancy,
I am curious – have you heard much about Coca Cola’s partnership with WWF and their commitment toward becoming water neutral (conducting water based projects to achieve water savings equal to the amount used in their operations) by 2010?
If so, I would be interested in your opinion as to whether these initiatives are delivering real value in terms of water savings or whether they are mere greenwashing.
February 2, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Nancy Babyak
Andrew,
Thanks for the question. No, I was not aware of Coke’s work with the WWF or even the thought of becoming ‘water neutral’.
I have a couple of thoughts:
1. Happy for the communities that have bottling or processing plants. The efforts to have a cleaner interaction with the surrounding environment has to be a good thing.
2. I couldn’t find any information on if they will be ‘extending’ the ability to purify water to help regions where they have plants that have little clean water for the poor / rural population. I have traveled in Mexico where a bottle of Coke is your best chance at a clean liquid. Are they helping communities increase their ability to purify water?
3. How many bottling plants are there? I know that many bottling facilities are independent… so how many communities will be impacted by the mother ship changing practices?