National Geographic Launches Mission Blue Initiative to Combat Water Scarcity in India.
As millions of Indian citizens continue to struggle with poor access to clean drinking water, 21st Century Fox’s National Geographic has teamed with Water Aid India and top talent from Bollywood to launch Mission Blue, a new initiative to raise awareness of water scarcity and drive conservation.
The company will air documentaries and television specials about the crisis across its channels in India, and the campaign’s website will provide digital tools allowing viewers to calculate their own water footprints and provide ways to save water in their daily lives.
National Geographic’s Swati Mohan announced the initiative in Mumbai in honor of Earth Day.
“Today, the water crisis around the world calls for much attention.
The channel will also air Parched, the three-part documentary series from Academy Award winner Alex Gibney that explores the environmental and political causes of water scarcity around the world.
“I am proud to be associated with an inconic brand that has the legacy of working for the cause of preserving the planet,” said Bollywood star Farhan Akhtar, who serves as the public face of the campaign.
It has the power to enlighten, inspire and empower people who are unaware of what they can do towards the cause of water scarcity and drive real change.
Currently, the school relies on tanker trunks to bring an often-insufficient water supply to its students.
MissionBlueMySchool aims to install a piped supply system for the school, as well as filters, coolers, and a rainwater harvesting system.

PATASKALA – When Liberty Christian Academy senior Addie Dickerson first learned that some children in developing countries must walk 6 kilometers, or 3.72 miles, just to get drinking water, her heart sank.
In need of a senior project for school, she decided to partner with World Vision, a Christian humanitarian organization, and bring a benefit 6 kilometer run/walk to Liberty Christian and the Pataskala area.
By registering, participants will ensure a child in a developing country gets access to clean water.
"People even get information about their child, and they have the (opportunity) to sponsor them for life, too," Dickerson said.
"It’s because it’s 3.7 miles, which is the average distance a child walks to get water (in developing countries) — and it’s not even clean water," she said.
"If you get sick and your stomach gets messed up here, you just go to the doctor," Dickerson said.
The can represents the clean water World Vision works to get to people in developing countries.
The event will follow a course around the school, which stands on Refugee Road, just south of Pataskala.
The Pataskala-area Global 6K for Water When: 5 p.m. May 6 Where: Liberty Christian Academy, 10447 Refugee Road How much: Individuals can register for $50, but if they register for the Eagles Soar for Others team before midnight on May 1 they can save $10.
What for: Proceeds will go to World Vision, a Christian humanitarian organization that provides clean water to children in developing countries.

Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism wins top national award for drinking water project.
“Failure at the Faucet” was one of 85 honorees among more than the 1,300 entries.
“This award is a testament to the stellar work of the Center’s staff and the inspiring leadership of Andy and Dee Hall, who have built the Center into one of the top investigative nonprofit newsrooms in the country,” said Brant Houston, Knight Chair in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and president of the Center’s board of directors.
Reporting for the series began in 2015 as part of The Confluence, an experimental news project of the Center and the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
It is an example of in the UW’s vaunted Wisconsin Idea in action.
In early 2016, the Center was the first to report on the dangers posed by Wisconsin’s 176,000 lead service lines and the state’s high childhood lead poisoning rate, which rivals that of Flint, Michigan.
Throughout 2016, the Center continued its coverage of the risk of lead in state drinking water, including high levels at two state prisons.
The Center’s staff, along with UW-Madison’s J475 students, won an award for "Best Investigative Story or Series" for the "Failure at the Faucet" series, which revealed numerous threats to drinking water quality in Wisconsin, including lead, arsenic, radium, strontium, human and animal bacteria and viruses and pesticides.
UW-Madison journalism faculty: Deborah Blum and Katy Culver.
The organization is “dedicated to the perpetuation of a free press as the cornerstone of our nation and our liberty.” Last year’s SDX award winner in the same category was “Rape on the Night Shift,” by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Investigative Reporting Program at University of California-Berkeley, Frontline, Univision and KQED.

By Prof. Dr. P. K. Jena Potentially water rich and green Odisha during the last couple of decades is experiencing unbearable hot summer with severe water scarcity for drinking as well as for agricultural, domestic and industrial purposes.
Along with the hot summer, the water crisis particularly for drinking purpose in all parts of the state, has been very acute.
In urban areas though better infrastructural facilities are there to supply drinking water, the acute shortage of water is felt due to drying of most of the rivers and water bodies and at the same time the ground water table has gone down resulting in drying of the tube wells.
This measurable plight is due to unscientific irrigation practices, rampant deforestation, unplanned development of urban areas, industries, roads and railways, unscientific mining etc.
Along with these, the pollution of most of the rivers due to release of urban and industrial wastes, the mismanagement in storing of water resource and unscientific water distribution have been responsible for such acute water crisis.
In order to save Odisha from such miserable plight, the authorities should take immediate steps for implementing various projects in two important areas like (i) Enhancing the surface water in ponds and tanks and other suitable low lying areas for rain water harvesting with facilities for recharging the ground water and (ii) Undertaking afforestation in the barren and mined out areas as well as massive commercial plantation of species like neem, karanj etc., both in rural and urban areas including road and river sides.
Besides harvesting rain water on small and medium scales at suitable sites, better irrigation methods like surface, sprinkle and drip irrigation should be practiced so that the water can be utilized without much loss.
The water which we use particularly for drinking and other domestic purposes when supplied to the consumers a lot of public money is required for its purification and supply.
The forest being a major sink for green house gases, development of fertile soil, protector of ground water reserve and arrester of most of the rain water for going back to the ocean through rivers, efforts are being made all over the world to undertake afforestation programmes in the barren and wasteland including the mined out areas.
In order to bring improved socio economic development of the people in the state by utilizing its rich mineral, soil, water, forest and marine resources, the Government has to give high priority on integrated water resource management along with afforestation of vast barren and waste lands with priority to plantation of economic species both in rural and urban areas.

What do Americans think about their water?
In its 2017 survey, Gallup found that 63 percent of Americans worry a “great deal” about pollution of drinking water, and another 22 percent worry a “fair amount,” as shown in the figure below.
In both 2016 and 2017, the Conservation in the West Poll from Colorado College’s State of the Rockies Project has found that 51 percent of people in seven Mountain West states believe “low levels of water in rivers” is a very or extremely serious problem.
Water-related problems top climate change concerns Climate change is already manifesting through an amped-up hydrological cycle that is delivering deeper droughts and more extreme floods.
In the United States, there were some regional differences in concerns about climate change.
Nationally, 50 percent of Americans said drought was their top worry.
The figure below, based on 2016 data, shows water pollution is the top environmental concern among both Democrats and Republicans.
In July 2014, the Water Foundation asked a bipartisan team of pollsters to analyze Californians’ views on groundwater.
Non-white and lower-income Americans are especially worried about water Worries about water pollution are widespread in the United States, but surveys show that non-white and lower-income Americans are particularly concerned.
When asked if their community should be spending more on water infrastructure, 68 percent of those surveyed in 2016 said yes.

But for the next five months, no one told the parents of Summit’s 250 students.
School systems throughout the country have wrestled with lead in water for decades, in part because of the intractable problem of lead-bearing fixtures and pipes in aging buildings.
In addition, the overwhelming majority of schools face no state or federal laws that require testing, and crimped budgets and understaffed districts mean water testing seldom rises to a top priority.
But in a growing number of places, parents have become increasingly exasperated by the lack of transparency and delayed notification that often has accompanied the problem.
“We were not informed at all,” said Jeffery Hawkins, who said he learned from his daughter that fountains at her Milwaukee public school had tested for elevated lead levels.
The superintendent stepped down after the release of a scathing report that detailed the district’s failure to fix problems, and months later, Portland is still providing bottled water at its 90 schools — at an annual cost of about $850,000.
“It’s definitely been a very challenging year.
“It is way past the time we deal with this issue.” New York has gone further, with a new law requiring schools statewide to test drinking water for lead.
That means a tap that tests safe one day — no detectable lead — might show alarming levels in the water if checked another day.
“I don’t think we can base a nation’s response to lead in school drinking water on a lottery game.

Elena.
A widowed mother of five, Elena was empowered to access her own safe water and sanitation solutions at home.
A widowed mother of five, Elena was empowered to access her own safe water and sanitation solutions at home through something Water.org created called WaterCredit.
We created WaterCredit so the poor, like Elena, could access affordable financing to construct their own water taps and toilets at home.
Hours of the day are now spent working and attending school, rather than walking to collect water or ill in bed.
For instance, Elena’s daughter recently graduated school and now she works full-time at a local bank.
Her 17-year-old son is finishing his education and drives a taxi to supplement the household income.
Her three youngest boys are all in school with high hopes of becoming doctors and professional soccer players.
Within less than two years Elena’s loan for a tap and toilet will be repaid, and water will keep flowing.
With the ability to give her family water and private toilets, now Elena has empowered her children with opportunities to create bright futures for themselves.

DENVER, CO, MARCH 31, 2017 — The Water Research Foundation (WRF), a leading sponsor of innovative research supporting the water community, is pleased to announce a new project that will help clean water agencies explore how forward thinking utilities and companies leverage emotional motivators in public engagement programs to develop sustainable relationships with their customers. Awareness of water scarcity is disconnected from the deceptive abundance of this resource in many developed countries. This poses a challenge to clean water agencies advocating water stewardship. Social scientists such as Paul Slovic and Daniel Kahneman have long recognized the power of emotional involvement (the affect heuristic) in decision making and hence community building. Effective messaging and educative materials and/or programs that take advantage of research on emotional connectors is vital to tangibly demonstrate the value of water and the technology that creates clean water. WRF’s new project, “Forging Powerful and Sustainable Relationships Between Clean Water Agencies and the Community” (#4678), has two main objectives: Assess which emotional motivators and customer engagement practices are…

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Rivers provide our drinking water, nourish our agriculture, and support many.
There is currently no offshore oil and gas development in America’s Arctic Ocean.
Rivers provide our drinking water, nourish our agriculture, and support many.
There is currently no offshore oil and gas development in America’s Arctic Ocean.

Line break causes Water Boil advisory in Mathis.
CORPUS CHRISTI (KIII NEWS) – The City of Mathis issued a Water Boil advisory Saturday night.
Due to a line break and reduced distribution system pressure, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has required the City of Mathis’ John A. Standlea Water Treatment Plant public water system to notify all customers to boil their water prior to consumption (e.g., washing hands/face, brushing teeth, drinking, etc).
To ensure destruction of all harmful bacteria and other microbes, water for drinking, cooking, and ice making should be boiled and cooled prior to use for drinking water or human consumption purposes.
The water should be brought to a vigorous rolling boil and then boiled for two minutes.
In lieu of boiling, individuals may purchase bottled water or obtain water from some other suitable source for drinking water or human consumption purposes.
When it is no longer necessary to boil the water, the public water system officials will notify customers that the water is safe for drinking water or human consumption purposes.
Once the boil water notice is no longer in effect, the public water system will issue a notice to customers that rescinds the boil water notice in a manner similar to this notice.
The City of Mathis asks that you share this information with all the other people who drink this water, especially those who may not have received this notice directly.
If you have questions concerning this matter, you may contact City Manager, Michael Barrera at 361-945-7967 or Interim Director of Public Works, Gabriel Ortiz at 361-533-0467.