Ten-year-old Nadifa Isadurgi drinks clean water pumped from a source within Touloum camp in the Darfur region of Sudan.
Photo: Olav Saltbones courtesy Norwegian Red Cross/IFRC.
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Water Woes
August 10, 2005
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Access to clean water is a matter of life and death for poor people across the globe. And that's the reality over one billion face today.
On this edition, we'll hear about the problem of water domestically and abroad, and the community organizers who are creating solutions. People in cities ranging from Manilla in the Philippines to Felton, California are thirsting for change.
Featuring:
Frederick Farolan, Water Vigilance Network; Barbara Spinger and Guadalupe Nunez, community activists; Paula Ramos, Environmental Justice Coalition for Water.
This week's host: Pauline Bartolone.
For more information:
Friends of Locally Owned Water
P.O. Box 38
Felton, CA 95018
831-335-3053
feltonflow@aol.com; www.feltonflow.org
Water Justice
www.waterjustice.org
Environmental Justice Coalition for Water
www.ejcw.org
Preservation Park
654 13th Street
Oakland CA, 94612
510-286-8400
paola@ejwatercoalition.org
Other helpful links:
Article: "A Short Update on the Failed Water Privatization in the Philippines"
Manilla IndyMedia
http://manila.indymedia.org/?action=newswire&parentview=3559
Authors: Joy Chavez, Focus on the Global South (Philippine Office) and
Nepomuceno Malaluan, Action for Economic Reforms, April 2005
Public Citizen: Water for All Campaign
www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/
215 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20003
(202) 546-4996
Sierra Club: Corporate Water Privitization
www.sierraclub.org/cac/water/index.asp
85 Second Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
415-977-5500
information@sierraclub.org