Samburu Project’s Walk for Clean Water in Hermosa Beach.
On April 30, the Samburu Project will hold its 8th Annual Walk for Water Pier to Pier Walk in Hermosa Beach.
These walks will be held other California locations such as Malibu and Woodside as well as in major metropolitan areas including Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, New York, Phoenix, San Francisco, Stamford, Conn., and London, England.
“Here in the South Bay as always it will be a special day for us.
Students are personally involved in fund-raising for the event.” Mira Costa High School students participate in the project through their Model U.N. class and their instructor Bob Timberlake, who is committed to the event.
“I come to the high school and explain the Walk for Water and the project itself.
We create shareable fundraising pages for the students participating in the Pier to Pier Walk, so they can send it to family and friends and get sponsors.” The Samburu Project has been working with Mira Costa students for six years, and the students represent an integral part of the fundraiser.
We have a tent set up with jerry cans like those that women use there to carry water.
Seeing them and being able to pick them up makes it easier for participants to relate to the experience of carrying cans that weigh 44 pounds when filled with water,” Swanson explains.
The walk, which starts at 8 a.m., both begins and ends at American Junkie, located at 68 Pier Ave. in Hermosa Beach.

Even while several parts of the district are facing severe drinking water scarcity for the last couple of months because of severe drought conditions, the officials are going all out to implement various programmes.
Potable drinking water is supplied to the 60 Wards of the Salem Corporation through the Mettur-Salem dedicated water supply scheme, and the Nangavalli old water scheme.
In a majority of the villages, citizens complain that they get water once in 10 days.
Even after reaching the spot, they will have to wait in long queues to collect the water.
In the villages in Kolathur block on the banks of River Cauvery, citizens have started migrating to other parts, due to scarcity of water.
The residents of Nangavalli area say that they are not getting water for days together.
These municipalities and the rural local bodies have been taking initiatives to prevent the illegal tapping of drinking water using motor pumps.
The officials conducted surprise check and seized many pumps.
The district administration nominated 58 special officers to solve the drinking water complaints of the people.
The Salem Corporation on its part has set up a special control room with toll free phone numbers.

The films, exclusively created for the channel by Imtiaz Ali, Hansal Mehta, Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, and Madhur Bhandarkar, will premiere on the campaign website and Hotstar today.
In line with the brand’s objective to lead with purpose and help sustain the planet, the initiative was announced in Mumbai to mark the occasion of Earth Day.
In addition to the main campaign (featuring Akhtar) which will run across media, National Geographic will also disseminate the message through various formats of storytelling to reach and appeal to as many people as possible.
This includes special documentaries on the water issue; both global and local, as well as exclusively created short films by award winning directors Imtiaz Ali (Paani Panchayat), Hansal Mehta (Paanipath), Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury (Baiju Bulli) and Madhur Bhandarkar (Ek Baalti Paani).
Speaking on the campaign, Swati Mohan, business head, India, National Geographic and FOX Networks Group says, "National Geographic has always been a brand that has stood for driving purposeful change; something we have been doing for over a century now.
Mohan informs that there will be a month of television programming on the water crisis in India and around the world starting May 12.
The dedicated microsite for Mission Blue also has specially created digital tools that will help people get a sense of how severe the water problem is, and what they can do to tackle it.
As the next logical step to knowing one’s water footprint, the website urges people to reduce it in various ways and amounts through a ‘Pledge’ tool.
National Geographic Channel India was launched in July 1998.
The channel is currently distributed to 55 million subscribers in India and reaches to 139 million viewers every month in India on an average.

West Virginia State University has sued Dow Chemical and former operators of the Institute chemical plant, alleging that the facility has contaminated the groundwater under the university’s campus.
University officials insist the contamination poses no health risks — the campus does not use groundwater for its drinking water.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Kanawha Circuit Court, seeks to force the companies to clean up the contamination, prevent future migration of the chemicals and compensate the university, a historically black institution, for harm to its image in the public and potential students.
“It is my hope that Dow will come to the table and take full responsibility for the mess it created,” Jenkins told reporters.
University officials and lawyers say three contaminants have been found at “elevated levels” in the groundwater 15 to 50 feet beneath the campus.
It was not clear which of the various chemical units that operated over the years at the plant led to the groundwater contamination.
University officials say they learned of the contamination about four years ago, when they took ownership from the state of the former West Virginia Rehabilitation Center, located between the campus and the chemical plant.
He said the administration waited to reveal the issue until it had conducted enough testing to be convinced there was no health concern and to be able to communicate that belief with its initial notification to students, faculty, staff and students.
Six years ago, then-plant owner Bayer CropScience eliminated MIC manufacturing, use and storage at the plant following a U.S. Chemical Safety Board report that was highly critical of plant operations and a major change in the company’s global marketing strategy.
Union Carbide, once a major institution in the Kanawha Valley, operated the Institute plant from 1946 until it sold the site to Rhone-Poulenc, a French firm, in 1986.

Depleted water resources, unquenched thirst, parched throats.
Repally, a small village under Manavapadu mandal under Alampur Taluk of Jogulamba Gadwal district is under severe drinking water crises, as all drinking water sources in the village have dried up except two hand bores.
With summer temperature going up every passing day, the villagers are now expressing apprehensions about the possible predicament they would encounter even these two hand bores go dry in the days ahead.
“We are having only two hand bores to serve the drinking water supply to the entire village.
We have neither an overhead water tank nor adequate underground water supply pipelines to supply tap water to our households.
We are suffering from drinking water scarcity since many years now.
Though the leaders come and promise many things, they are confined only to elections,” says a woman of the village.
With severe drinking water crises arising in the village, old, young and even the school going children are standing in long queues at the hand bores to get their share of water.
The villagers are urging the government authorities to immediately ease their water woes and construct overhead water tank to supply water to each household through water pipelines.
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Deputy Ruler of Dubai honours winners of global water award.
DUBAI // The winners of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Water Award were honoured on Thursday by the Deputy Ruler of Dubai.
Ten winners from eight countries were given the US$1 million (Dh3.67m) award by Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed, out of 138 applications from 43 countries.
The award, which has three categories, was launched by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, to encourage research centres and individuals to find solutions for clean-water scarcity.
Khalifa University and the Masdar Institute at Khalifa University shared first place in innovative research and development category.
The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, in cooperation with the Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation, and Elemental Water Makers, a desalination company in the Netherlands, won the award in international institutions category.
Dr Marta Vivar Garcia, a researcher from Spain, won the Innovative Youth Award.
"The UAE has become a centre for helping the needy wherever they are, in adherence with the teachings of Islam, Arab traditions and the principles instilled in the hearts of Emiratis by the Founding Fathers," said Saeed Al Tayer, chairman of the foundation.
The UN agnecy has warned that, by 2040, 600 million children will live in areas with severely limited clean-water resources.
"Foundation’s projects provided potable clean water to over 8 million people in 19 countries worldwide," Mr Al Tayer said.

New treatment plant to provide clean drinking water to conflict-affected Iraqis south of Mosul.
ERBIL, Iraq, 27 April 2017 – A new water treatment plant on the banks of the Tigris River will provide clean drinking water for more than 50,000 Iraqis at the Qayyarah Airstrip Emergency Site, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) said on Thursday.
The plant, currently under construction, is supported by UNICEF and EU humanitarian aid and will provide both emergency and long-term solutions for the current water crisis stemming from military operations in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, which has so far resulted in the displacement of more than a half million people.
‘The majority of water treatment plants along the Tigris have been destroyed in fighting over the last several years, leaving vulnerable populations with only access to raw, untreated river water,’ said Thomas Wilson, Coordinator for DRC’s Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme.
‘We decided to build a new treatment plant to provide clean drinking water to the camp and host community as a way of providing an immediate and longer-term solution.’ Located some three kilometers east of the Airstrip, the treatment facility – a compact design of traditional plants – can provide up to 200 cubic metres of water (200,000 litres) per hour for camp residents, greatly increasing both the quantity and quality of drinking water.
DRC has worked with authorities and engineers from the local water directorate to design and build the treatment plant as both a response to the current humanitarian emergency and a longer-term, durable solution for water provision in the area.
After the construction of a connecting pipeline to the Airstrip, the treatment plant will more than triple the current provision of clean drinking water to residents.
‘With the arrival of summer, water consumption across Iraq will spike and we are now in a better position to provide enough water per person in the Airstrip,’ Wilson added.
‘This will help mitigate the outbreak of diseases like cholera, which is endemic across the country.’

2 billion people have no access to safe drinking water.
Billions of people are of risk to various diseases due to unsafe drinking water By 2050, water demand will increase by 55 per cent mainly on industry use Drinking water concerns are driving the growth of bottled water [SYDNEY] While the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) mandate safe drinking water for all by 2030, currently 1.8 billion people get drinking water from contaminated sources, putting them at risk of contracting various diseases, according to UN Water, the UN coordinating agency.
But in Oceania, parts of Western Africa and in the Sahara region in Africa, less than three-quarters of the population uses an improved source with the figure below 50 per cent in Papua New Guinea, Angola and Equatorial Guinea.
“In Sub-Saharan Africa, 90 per cent of the diseases are water-borne,” András Szöllösi-Nagy, chair of the Intergovernmental Council of UNESCO’s International Hydrological Programme, tells SciDev.Net.
“If you invest one dollar into a public utility, whether it’s water supply or a sanitary facility, in the long run you gain four dollars (at the level of national savings),” he says.
With the global population set to reach nine billion, the OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050 report warns of further strain on freshwater availability.
Human consumption is only six per cent of total water consumption, the big user being agriculture, says Szollosi-Nagy, who is also the governor of the World Water Council.
“The world has plenty of water although we can’t evenly distribute it.” He compares Jordan’s 120 cubic metres per person, per year to Canada’s 112,000 cubic metres per person annually.
People in developing countries buy bottled water because “it is marketed as pure, clean and safe, something that is not readily available from a tap,” Gary Mortimer, associate professor at the Queensland University of Technology, tells SciDev.Net.
“Bottled water sales are expected to reach US$280 billion next year, with an average continued growth of over eight per cent at least till 2020.

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Eumungerie Water Supply Scheme completed.
After a long wait, residents of Eumungerie and Mogriguy have access to potable water with the completion of the Eumungerie Water Supply Scheme.
After flushing the system in Eumungerie and reaching satisfactory disinfection in accordance with Australian drinking water standards, it was now potable.
“A clean water system is one of the primary health care benefits to any community, so that’s the primary benefit.
But there were also people who in the past had to put up tanks or cart water in from other places and they don’t have to do that now,” Mr Bailey said.
However, Mr Bailey said if someone built in the village they would be able to pay to have the water connected to their house.
The completion of the Eumungerie Water Supply Scheme has been a long time coming.
Council adopted a forward planning proposal to supply reticulated drinking water to Dubbo’s villages in 1995 and subsequently supplied drinking water to Wongarbon in 2000, Brocklehurst in 2001 and Ballimore in 2010.
The design for the Eumungerie Water Supply Scheme began in 2014, Mr Bailey said.
Construction took more than 12 months and included more than 35 kilometres of pipeline starting from the reservoir north of Mogriguy.