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6″ x 9″ watercolor, $70 ($10 donated to Water for People)
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Yesterday was World Water Day, “an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro.” The theme for 2007 was “coping with water scarcity.” Many of us in developed nations have no concept of what water scarcity means on a personal level. I certainly got a sense of the problem while I was in Venezuela. I had to pack my drinking water with me for my stay in the country, and avoided nearly all vegetables so as not to eat anything washed with unclean water. Even in the major capitol city of Caracas, clean drinking water was an issue. Multiple factors such as overpopulation, poor infrastructure, and lack on funds contribute to the United Nation’s estimate of over 1.1 billion people currently without safe drinking water.

World Changing posted an excellent list of resources, projects, and events that address water scarcity. It’s worth a glance.

Happy belated Water Day!