Maude Barlow, Right Livelihood Award recipient for the recognition of water as a human right, tells us about what she defines a global water crisis and the risky yet relatively unknown connection between water protection and commercial agreements.
Access to basic sanitation helps combat malnutrition, violence and the spread of life-threatening diseases. For World Toilet Day, Action Against Hunger tells us about its importance for sustainable development.
Drinking water in more than a dozen countries around the world has been found contaminated with micro particles of plastic a recent scientific study has revealed. About 83 per cent of the water samples tested during a research project commissioned by journalism organisation Orb Media contained plastic fibres, with the United States presenting the highest contamination rate
Days after New Zealand granted the Whangui River the status of legal personhood, the culmination of a 140 year legal struggle by the Maori people, a court in India has declared the rivers Ganga and its main tributary Yamuna a legal “person” in a fresh effort to save it from pollution. The river Ganga Originating in
Indigenous communities in India’s Rayagada district mitigate the challenges of water scarcity by storing rainwater in subsurface soil. A cheap and concrete solution to a global problem.
Tiberio Grimberg lives on the outskirts of Beka’ot, an Israeli settlement near the Jordan Valley. He works as a gardener, nurturing and watering plants in his moshav, a type of Israeli town or settlement. “Around here in the Jordan valley, vineyards dominate the agriculture,” says Tiberio as he wipes his sweat, sitting in the seat of
Many consumer products such as textiles and leather products, firefighting foams, cleaning products and pesticides contain PFASs (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), known in the United States as perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). Cookware, carpets, fabrics for furniture and even paper packaging for food also contain these chemicals. Used in manufacturing due to useful
Quali sono le aree più a rischio siccità o dove l’accesso all’acqua non è garantito? Un atlante ci mostra dove si verifica il water grabbing, l’accaparramento dell’acqua.
Come le famiglie di una delle aree più aride del Myanmar coltivano gli ortaggi utilizzando sistemi che usano l’acqua in modo efficiente, risparmiandola. Tra questi c’è anche un progetto di Terres des Hommes Italia.
It’s called Safe Water Cube, it costs 5,500 euros and purifies every type of surface water without the need for electricity or maintenance.
