by Pam Lazos | Dec 21, 2021 | Uncategorized |
Sunrise, Cape May, NJ It’s always been interesting to me how the holy days in the christian calendar overlap with the pagan holidays of old. Before we had Christmas, there was the Germanic Yule — which gave us things like yuletide caroling and the yule log — and...
by Pam Lazos | Nov 25, 2021 | Uncategorized |
Happy Thanksgiving! Here at GWA we have much to be thankful for, but most of all we are grateful for the gift of clean water! GWA envisions a world where all people have access to safe drinking water and sanitation. The UN and WHO estimate that around the world,...
by Pam Lazos | Aug 15, 2021 | water |
by Ewoma Okah-Avae The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an area of marine toxic waste plastic pollution estimated to be 1.6 million square kilometers, twice the size of Texas and three times the size of France! As my writer friend put it, “it’s another continent...
by Pam Lazos | Aug 6, 2021 | Uncategorized |
También La Lluvia (Even the Rain) (2000), directed by Icíar Bollaín, tells the story of a small film crew making a movie about Christopher Columbus’ landing in the New World and the effect Spain’s arrival had on the indigenous Indian population. The movie crew travels...
by Pam Lazos | Jul 18, 2021 | Uncategorized, water, Water and Peace, water-borne diseases, water, sanitation and hygiene or WASH, World Water Forum |
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...
