A precautionary boil water advisory was issued Wednesday morning by the Kansas City Water Services. The advisory applies to sections of east Kansas City, including the area bounded by East 47th Street to the north, Blue Parkway to the south, Coal Mine Road to the west and Interstate 435 to the east. Other residents affected are those living along Ozark Road, from Eastern Avenue east to Sycamore Avenue. Residents in the area may be experiencing low water pressure due to a…

Bottled water brand Voss will run a US-wide awareness campaign to promote clean water, sanitation and hygiene initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa. The campaign kicked off on World Water Day yesterday, and will run for exactly one month until 22 April, which is Earth Day. It will aim to raise awareness of the fact that more than 300 million people in sub-Saharan Africa lack access to clean drinking water. The brand will raise funds for water projects on the continent by working with the Voss Foundation – the fifth year that the company has supported the foundation’s mission through retail-based consumer promotions. In addition to in-store activities, an integrated communications effort with radio ads, social media activity and public relations will support the campaign. Voss Water chief marketing officer Ken Gilbert said:…

World Water Day, celebrated on March 22 of every year, was designated by the United Nations to focus on the importance of fresh water and promote the sustainable management of freshwater resources in the world. ACTED Lebanon, through a project funded by the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO) to mobilise neighbourhoods and local institutions to meet emergency water, hygiene, sanitation, shelter and protection needs, is joining in on the effort by organising water forums in several regions of Beirut and Mount Lebanon with the Lebanese community as well as Syrian and Palestinian refugees. Lebanon has abundant reserves of freshwater unlike its neighbouring countries but the different communities (host and refugee communties) living in the country suffer from water scarcity during summer due to the poor water management and infrastructure. In addition to this, according to the UN, 70% of the freshwater resources are polluted and have continued to decline in health since the start of the garbage crisis in July 2015. Hygiene promotion, an integral…

Drone footage released by ActionAid U.K. shows locals drawing water from a dried-up riverbed in Kenya. A drought in East Africa that has left more than 16 million people facing famine, according to ActionAid U.K. (ActionAid U.K.) Imagine walking three or four miles to get a drink. It’s hot, it’s dry — there’s no water where you live. You arrive at what used to be the nearest river but it’s now a beach-like strip of dirt. Yes, there is water, but it’s opaque with mud at the bottom of a small well dug in hopes of finding moisture beneath the former riverbed. The effects of climate change in the developing world is rarely illustrated in such a clear way; the water is gone, and people are enduring the fight of their lives for…

Warming intensifies Colorado drought.
Forty million people depend on the Colorado River for drinking water.
And the problem is going to get worse as the climate changes.
That’s not just because we’re going to see changing precipitation patterns.
And warmer temperatures can exacerbate droughts, especially when they happen in spring.
When it does, it evaporates or gets absorbed by soil.
As a result, when summertime comes, less is available for runoff into the river.
Woodhouse: “We’re moving toward these warmer drought conditions that are having more of an impact on stream flow.” So for the farmers who depend on the river for irrigation, and the communities that rely on it for drinking water, warmer and drier conditions pose a real and immediate threat.
Reporting credit: Sarah Kennedy/ChavoBart Digital Media.
Photo: Colorado River.

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – Following high levels of the contaminant PFOA in Hoosick Falls drinking water and busted pipes and lead contamination in Flint, Michigan, water quality is taking a forefront in both chambers of New York’s government.
“The older stuff is definitely dilapidated.
Some places like troy still use wooden pipes.
Senate Republicans want to invest three billion more than the governor to prevent water contamination, clean up pollution and protect water sources.
Assembly Democrats are concerned spending more could put New York in a budget hole.
“Does it push our debt limit over our limit, which I think it does and I think that’s something we need to be very mindful of,” Assemblyman John McDonald III said.
Scott says plans are ready to improve water quality in New York, they just need the money to make it happen.
“We need more funding to get the money to pay for all this stuff,” Scott said.
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In a city with world-beating and untreated artesian drinking water, it constantly astounds me how much premium retail shelf space is devoted to bottled water. Why pay for a plastic fantastic when Christchurch Tap is, well, on-tap? Branded water is a marvel of marketing guile – proof positive that consumers are suckers for craftily packaged products. Of course beyond the domestic market, it’s a very different story for cities and countries that would never dream of quenching their thirst or brushing their teeth from the town supply. READ MORE: * For sale: 40 billion litres of Canterbury’s purest water * Second Canterbury property with water extraction rights up for sale * Elation as Ashburton council backs out of controversial water bottling deal Which is why the commercial extraction and export of New Zealand sourced pristine drinking water, without any payment of royalties, has become such a hot potato. The latest local flashpoint appears to be the former Kaputone wool scouring plant in Belfast, which Cavalier Carpets is in the process of selling. With it will go a lucrative water consent allowing over 120 million litres of water a month to be bottled. That’s 50 one-litre bottles a second. The consent doesn’t expire until 2032 and the only cost is an occasional $100 administration fee from the local council, should they bother to inspect the operation. Then there is Okuru Enterprises and its grand plans to pipe 800 million litres a month of glacial…

Why pay for a plastic fantastic when Christchurch Tap is, well, on-tap?
* For sale: 40 billion litres of Canterbury’s purest water * Second Canterbury property with water extraction rights up for sale * Elation as Ashburton council backs out of controversial water bottling deal Which is why the commercial extraction and export of New Zealand sourced pristine drinking water, without any payment of royalties, has become such a hot potato.
With it will go a lucrative water consent allowing over 120 million litres of water a month to be bottled.
That’s 50 one-litre bottles a second.
According to his office, our annual freshwater resource is 500 trillion litres, of which 10 trillion litres is extracted.
Six trillion is harvested for irrigation, over two trillion by industry, two trillion for town water supplies and half a trillion for stock water.
Bottled water in 2016 accounted for 8.7 million litres.
Nick Smith would argue it’s the proverbial drop in the bucket, but it also underscores the enormity of the planned bulk-water extractions in Belfast and South Westland.
A litre of wine, about 200".
But if the government was to embark on a clip-the-ticket regime for commercial bulk-extraction, the detail will be devilish.

Access to safe water and toilets are imperative to solving the global water and sanitation crisis. Yet one thing remains critical to the success of these solutions – hygiene. A read on how the people of Ragpur are practicing better hygiene. Access to safe water and toilets are imperative to solving the global water and sanitation crisis. Critical to the long-term success of these solutions is the need for education, specifically with regards to personal hygiene. Without the practice of good hygiene, the transformative power of safe water and personal toilets fall short of their full potential. Teaching children good hygiene at an early age ensures they’ll always follow hygienic practices. What’s more, kids will pass along their newfound knowledge to their whole family – parents, grandparents, older siblings – with a kindhearted effectiveness more…

Elma’s courage gave her the strength to choose smiles over tears, to choose love over pain, and to champion safe water for her family, even when the battle seemed impossible. Elma is courageous. You see, Elma and her husband are poor, and have never been able to break free from the cycle of poverty. Despite their circumstance, Elma chose to do her best at making a home for her family in a dirt-floor hut in rural Philippines. Made of bamboo and tarps, the dwelling never lacked love but did lack safe water and a toilet. Elma was unsure how she and her husband could ever afford these things for their home, but she knew having a tap and a bathroom would make life better for their children. A thirty minute trek from their village, Elma’s children walk to school every day. But before this they used to…