Links to Water Activism and Further
Awareness
- Focus the Nation – A
USA based effort with local chapters to galvanize different
community movements that you can be a part of to improve our water
and clean our environment. The Queens chapter is organized by
our very own Professor William Nieter, a speaker at the
Dialogue.
- World Water Day 2008!
March 22
International college kids like you, and lots of others who are
making caring about our water the top priority unified
- The St. John's Global Awareness
Project
- Free Rice
Play this game and donate ten grains of rice to the World Food
Programme for every correct answer!
http://www.freerice.com/index.php
- PlayPumps International
Check out this ingenius invention - it pumps water as children
play. Goal is to install 10,000 of these in Africa.
www.playpumps.org/
- LifeStraw
Who says being big in business is bad? This German company created
the LifeStraw to filter dirty water as your drink it. This
invention is hailed by Time Magazine as one of the most important
inventions of the year! See what being in the corporate world can
accomplish!
http://www.lifestraw.com/
- Orange County’s Ground-Water
Replenishment System
Check out the Video on this site! Orange County, California is a
semi-arid region that uses A LOT of water. Enter the new
Ground-Water replenishment system: It treats waste water to make it
near-distilled quality. Orange County is going to have clean
drinking water now - forever.
http://www.gwrsystem.com/
- PureWater2go
Buying bottled Water breaking the bank? Buy a Water Bottle
on THIS site for $7.95 and the filter will take out bad taste and
chlorine for over a month- guaranteed!
http://www.purewater2go.com/bottles.html
- Charity: Water
This site lets you buy a fancy water bottle gift for someone that
actually buys water, latrines and wells for a family in different
parts of the world. You can see it by GPS coordinates on the
website, they’ll give you updates of the building progress and
results, and you may even receive a picture of the people whose
lives your transform. You’re buying of these water bottles really
does help!
http://www.charityis.org/
To See More, check out these websites to
get reliable information on the Problem and get-in on the
ACTION!