Singer Alicia Keys is WaterWideWeb’s Water Celebrity of the Week. In her music video Superwoman, water is a powerful metaphor for the unity and empowerment of women. Within the first minute of Superwoman, Keys is adorned in traditional garb walking across the Saharan desert to fetch water at a well. On her head rests a basin [...]
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Irrigation Hype in Uzbekistan
World Bank (WB) continues to invest in irrigation and drainage management in upstream countries of the Aral Sea. In a previous article published on 21 December 2010, the Senior Water Resource Specialist in the Agriculture and Rural Development Unit of the Europe and Central Asia region of WB, IJsbrand de Jong told WaterWideWeb, “Close to [...]
Student NGO Builds Wells in India
In 2007, an eighth grade student traveled to the rural village of Paras, India. Rujul Zaparde witnessed villagers walking over one mile a day to find clean water. The sight moved the young Zaparde. When he returned to the United States, he partnered with a peer, Kevin Petrovic, and the two founded Drinking Water for [...]
Water Survey, a matter of water
Empowering Women with Water
Promoting gender equality and empowering women is the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to be reached by 2015. The lives of women are particularly affected by access to clean water—or lack thereof. Empowering women in the developing world will require more than micro-finance loans and entrepreneurial efforts. It will require water, and plenty of it. Peter [...]
the science of water, water science
Wave Power: Renewable Energy
What do global climate change and the energy crisis have in common? The former is characterized by rising sea levels and glacial melt, while the latter offers an energy alternative in ocean wave power. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) is in the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 16) [...]
The Biggest Issue of the 21st Century: Water Security
Global water demands are increasing. Food security and energy production are major considerations in global water security. Public health and economic development are in large part moderated by the management of water systems. Essentially, the future of the world is contingent upon safe and sustainable water systems. But how is the international community addressing this [...]
Water Diplomacy: The Water for the Poor Act
Imagine a world where infants and children didn’t die from diarrhea and typhoid before the age of five years-old. News headlines would not read, “Cholera Outbreak in Haiti Takes Thousands of Lives”. Girls could go to school all four weeks of the month, without worrying about hygiene issues. Envision a world where poverty and malnourishment [...]
Save a Water Well Save Lives
Rehabilitating broken water wells is an investment in global health, education, poverty reduction, and the safety of women and girls in developing nations. Water well rehabilitation secures the initial monetary and social investment made when water wells in a developing country were installed. Sometimes, saving water wells could mean saving a life. In Cote D’Ivoire and [...]
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