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Chicago (Jan. 22, 2008) A group of Saint Xavier University honors students will fight to protect clean Rocky Mountain water from mining contamination in Idaho this summer as part of a water activism boot camp. After a semester of studying water management and conducting field work in a Saint Xavier honors class, several students will accompany SXU Biology Professor Tatiana Tatum and Philosophy Professor Thomas Thorp to Southern Idaho, where they will work alongside a local organization ...

Canadian water activist Maude Barlow, leading protesters at the World Water Forum in Istanbul, says access to water is a fundamental human right. - Maude Barlow Ottawa, Canada -

Complete video at: www.fora.tv Author and journalist Jacques Leslie describes meeting internationally-recognized anti-dam activist Medha Patkar in an excerpt from his book, "Deep Water." ----- Jacques Leslie talks about "Deep Water: The Epic Struggle over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment." This is an incisive, searching, and beautifully written account of the emerging crisis over dams and the world's water. Leslie makes this crisis vivid through the stories of three figures: Medha ...

SocialVibe.com/MatthewLush For most, if not all, of you, a drink of water is as close as your kitchen faucet. But imagine being one of the more than 1 billion people who don't have access to clean drinking water. In many underdeveloped countries, people must resort to drinking water from unsafe sources, such as open ditches and swamps, where sewage runoff contaminates the water. Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation causes 80% of all sickness and disease, and kills more people every year ...

This is an interview with David Zetland, a fellow at Berkeley and water markets economist.

chaity: water founder Scott Harrison presents his story at LuxuryLab's 2009 Innovation Forum. This program was recorded on November 6, 2009. charity: water on the web: www.charitywater.org LuxuryLab presents its first-ever INNOVATION FORUM, an unprecedented event addressing the rapidly changing luxury marketplace. Held at TheTimesCenter, the forum brought together thought leaders to share never-seen-before research, trends, best practices, and a passion for ideas. - LuxuryLab Scott Harrison ...

Development organization AMMAN IMMAN: WATER IS LIFE builds permanent sources of water in the Azawak of West Africa. The Azawak, home to half a million people, suffers from water scarcity. During the rainy season, which lasts only between one and three months, people drink from marshes. When these dry up, they have to travel long distances to find water. People are dying, not just from drinking dirty water, but because they have no water to drink. You can help the people of the Azawak. This ...

Thirty-four-year-old Salva Dut lives in New York. He was one of Sudan's "Lost Boys" -- one of the many thousands of children orphaned during the country's 20 year civil war. For more than a decade, Dut wandered homeless with no news of his family. He wound up in Ethiopia, then Kenya, where he lived in a United Nations refugee camp for nearly six years before coming to the United States in 1996. As Paige Kollock reports, Salva Dut is now helping villagers in his homeland gain access to clean ...

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A call for individual action to aid the world water crises; rampant consumption and overuse, pollution, and capitalization and privatization of the earths' lifeblood puts every living thing on this planet in peril. Simple things you can do to help turn the tide - starting now.

Song is "Don't Drink the Water", by Dave Matthews Band.

Reaching for Higher Ground, produced by youth, tells the story of a group of young people who are fighting to save their communities water. Background: Appalshop's Appalachian Media Institute had been training young people from Lotts Creek in video production for several years. The goals of these trainings was to have the video makers create works which would serve their community. At the same time a citizens' group named Kentuckians for the Commonwealth had been working on an organizing ...

SEE PART 2 of this video in the following link www.youtube.com This video was produced by The Democracy Center www.democracyctr.org This video is published here democracyctr.org )

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FLOW: For Love of Water...New Film Examines Global Water Crisis FLOW: For Love of Water is a new documentary premiering in New York and Los Angeles today that takes on the global water crisis. We speak with filmmaker Irena Salina and water rights activist, Maude Barlow, head of the Council of Canadians, founder of the Blue Planet Project and author of several books, including Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water. [includes rush transcript]...

FLOW: For Love of Water...New Film Examines Global Water Crisis FLOW: For Love of Water is a new documentary premiering in New York and Los Angeles today that takes on the global water crisis. We speak with filmmaker Irena Salina and water rights activist, Maude Barlow, head of the Council of Canadians, founder of the Blue Planet Project and author of several books, including Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water. [includes rush transcript]...

When water costs soar, residents of Highland Park, Michigan demand to know who will foot the bill. For more information about this film and to take action visit: www.mediathatmattersfest.org

a heartfelt, factual, chilling and expiriential account of chilling tar sands human, and environmental impact. Mike's clear first hand expirience of the subject lances through debate with its honesty. Worth 20 minites of time to hear of his reasons for walking off the job in the Athabaska tar sands and now speaking out publicly about the horror that his community of Fort Chipewan is exiriencing from the actions of this costly industry.

Michael O'Donnell Artist sculpts and creates amazing pottery. He is also an activist that has helped to win preservation rights for water in New Zealand. He is a beautiful orator and carries a vital message.

Natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale Formation is threatening our health, and our water quality. Local resident gives her account of drilling in her community. ... "natural gas" drilling Pennsylvania marcellus shale pollution water "clean water action" activism "fossil fuel"

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www.g20central.com - Internationally renowned water activist, Maude Barlow, speaks to an audience about the current global water crisis we have on our hands. Some great starter points for people looking for information Subscribe!

Gopal Chintan - Nepalese anti-water privatisation activist interviewed at this year's World Development Movement activism conference.

2006 New York candidate for Governor Malachy McCourt eloquently discusses water and Clearwater activism at the Clearwater festival, June 17 & 18 2006

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