Consumption, corruption & World Water Day March 22

Until Americans are willing to recognize why their desalination projects are 'stalled', how BigSugar undermines municipal water projects...

...or recognize how screwing Canadians & the Canadian environment IS NOT beneficial to Americans... its gonna be an uphill battle to educate Americans past the propaganda of willful ignorance & consumption...
JF Kennedy Jr: Canada Urged Not To Share Water with Americans - Polaris Institute
“BigSugar”: Coca-Cola in Guatemala & the Coca-Cola Conquest

UNICEF: World Water Day March 22, 2007.
The Shape of Water

UNICEF: World Water Day March 22, 2007

A World Without Water

The world is running out of its most precious resource. True Vision's timely film tells of the personal tragedies behind the mounting privatisation of water supplies.

More than a billion people across the globe don’t have access to safe water. Every day 3900 children die as a result of insufficient or unclean water supplies. The situation can only get worse as water gets evermore scarce.

World Water Day, 22 March, is an international day of action to draw attention to the lack of access to safe drinking water in the developing world.
Make a splash on World Water Day!
March 22 is World Water Day, and to mark this day, the Council of Canadians, CUPE, Oxfam Canada, the Polaris Institute, Eau Secours and other organizations across the country will take part in a national day of action to promote water as a public good – not a source of profit.
The Tap Project, taking place in New York City on World Water Day, is an innovative fundraising programme that will ask every diner in many of the city’s finest restaurants to pay $1 for the tap water they usually get for free. The funds will go to UNICEF to help save lives by providing safe drinking water access to children around the world.

UNICEF is working to help meet the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe water and basic sanitation by 2015. That’s right around the corner, but so are people willing to help meet the goal.

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Last year, the Council of Canadians paid federal Environment Minister John Baird a visit, delivering 45,000 petitions from Canadians demanding federal action on water. We haven’t heard back from him yet, have you?

There are many things that you can do to mark World Water Day in your community. Here are some ideas:

-Lobby your elected representatives. Your federal Member of Parliament will be in their constituency office during the weeks of March 17- 28. Meet with your representative and share the Council of Canadians’ call for a National Water Policy featured in the Briefing Note that is in this kit. Visit www.canadians.org/water for resources and click here for talking points to bring with you.

-Organize a film screening. Dead in the Water is a National Film Board documentary that investigates the results of the privatization of water services around the world. CUPE and the Council of Canadians have purchased multiple copies and have developed a discussion guide to help organize public screenings, house parties or community events. The discussion guide and fact sheets are available on our website and you can contact your Regional Office to find a copy of Dead in the Water to borrow. It should also be available in your local library.

-Make a splash in the media with the tools contained in this kit, including a template public service announcement and media advisory. Our media officer, Meera Karunananathan, has provided an op-ed emphasizing the need for Canada to take action on the water crisis at home and abroad available for you to adapt and submit for publication in your local paper.

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Comments

[Ayesha Lakhani]

Leaders who adopted the Millennium Development Goals in 2000 envisioned halving the proportion of people living without access to basic sanitation by the year 2015 – but we are nowhere near on pace to achieve that goal. Experts predict that by 2015, 2.1 billion people will still lack basic sanitation. At the present rate, sub-Saharan Africa will not reach the target until 2076.

If we take up the challenge, the positive impact will reverberate far beyond better access to clean water. Every dollar invested in water and sanitation yields an estimated seven dollars worth of productive activity. And that comes on top of the immeasurable gains in cutting poverty, improving health and raising living standards.
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