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Don’t Let it Drop – PSA-a-thon Series
Are you ready for your daily dose of H20 packaged into a handy-dandy Public Service Announcement? Well, I hope so. Today’s PSA is from WaterAid. It was created to encourage world leaders to make...
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We all poop. We all live downstream.
It’s World Toilet Day, and it’s no joke. Around 2.6 billion people worldwide lack toilets and every 15 seconds a child dies from sanitation-related illnesses. But we can smile that World Toilet Day was...
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#wwweek Talk Brief: Sanitation and Water for All
The first event I tuned to was the Sanitation and Water for All: Global Decision-makers Unite on WASH talk. Volunteering with PHLUSH, I wanted to get some info on global sanitation initiatives, and I...
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#wwweek Talk Brief: Gender, Water, and Food Security
The second event I tuned to was the Concrete Actions: Advancing the Integration of Gender, Water, Food Security talk. The prospect of this seminar was exciting because I had previously grappled with...
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Water and Toilets for Humans w/o Homes
On a recent trip to my hometown, I traveled two hours north to visit a close family member living on the streets. He is chronically homeless, and it deeply saddens me he is unable to accept housing...
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Celebrating World Toilet Day 2012 Locally and Globally
Water and toilets are inextricably linked, but toilets sometimes take a backseat to water problems occurring worldwide. But if you don’t have water, you can’t have some styles of toilets or proper...
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Talking Poo with You: World Toilet Summit 2012
It seems a little progress is being made in getting the world to talk poo. Some people know that 2.5 billion humans lack safe access to toilets and over 4,000 kids die each day from diarrhea illnesses...
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Open letter in support of all-gender restroom demand by UC Student-Worker Union
[Forgive my dearth of Water for the Ages posts. I have been studying water and sanitation issues in a sociology program at University of California Santa Cruz. I am a teaching assistant and taking...
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Empowerment and Gender Equality in Water and Sanitation: What does it mean?...
If you know of work done by non-profit or governmental organizations globally, you have likely heard the words - empowerment and gender equality. Groups worldwide use these terms in apparent pursuit...
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World Toilet Day recognized by UN: US network spreading word.
Today – 19 November 2013 – is World Toilet Day. World Toilet Day is being officially recognized by the United Nations this year, and a host of organizations are simultaneously working on sanitation...
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