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Until Recently Nobody in this Indian Village had a Toilet
Until Recently Nobody in this Indian Village had a Toilet (A journalist's observations on the politics of toilets in India) Originally published, in Dutch, on April 15 2019, in De Volkskrant. a Dutch National Newspaper. Author Ben Van Raaij, foreign editor of The...
Call for Posters
Call for Posters!
Oh Look — Another Learning Opportunity!
On Saturday, October 9, 2021, the Global Water Alliance in alliance with Thomas Jefferson University will convene its virtual 14th Annual Conference entitled, "Securing the Green to Make it Clean: Funding for Sustainable Sanitation." The conference—the theme of which...
Water-Borne Disease Highlight: Schistosoma
by Thomas McKeon We all know how mosquitos cause more harm to humans than any other animal on earth. Nearly 1 million people die from mosquito-borne diseases a year and many more are injured from diseases like Zika virus, West Nile virus, Chikungunya virus, dengue,...
Restoring Our Water Ecosystems
By Ewoma E. Okah-Avae As a species, we can’t overemphasize the importance of water. Oceans, rivers, lakes and streams make up the water ecosystem on the earth’s surface. Without water, human, aquatic, animal and plant life will become extinct. But when these natural...
Happy World Oceans Day!
[Sunset Beach, Cape May, NJ] Today is World Oceans Day! Like humans who are about 70% water, oceans cover 70% of the earth. In all likelihood, life emerged from the primordial soup, from the oceans to the swamps, bogs, marshes and wetlands, first as single-celled...
Water Literacy 5 — at the Community Level
[graphics - Arianna Rich] by Dr. Christiaan Morssink Water literacy at the community level is much more than measuring, assessing and improving the literacy of a multitude of households that together make up a community. Even if each household has it’s own water...
Initiative Dakar 2022
Initiative Dakar 2022 We at GWA are pleased to announce that Dr. Arun Deb’s arsenic removal project in West Bengal, India has been chosen as a “flagship” project to be showcased at the World Water Forum in Dakar, Senegal. Known as Initiative Dakar 2022, something new...
Making Maps: Reflections on Cameroon
[Six weeks of walking, but never a walk in the park] Project: Water Supply Problems in Nine Villages in the Bome-Ngyenmbo region, North Western Province, Cameroon Period: 2007-2014 Collaborations: In Cameroon: Mayor’s Office in Mbengwi, Meta Quality of Life...
The State of the Earth – 2021
photo of the original magazine April 22 — Earth Day. I was leafing through an oversized magazine a friend gave me when she retired entitled, Earth Week ’70, published in 1970 as the Official Publication of the Philadelphia Earth Week Committee. At only 48-pages...
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