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Does The Human Right to Water and Sanitation = Water and Sanitation Justice? 28 May 2013 | 10:02 am
Has anyone ever asked you “What do you do?” An interesting philosophical question for sure, but one of my condensed answers often is “I work for water justice and sanitation justice.” This means I wan...
Communicating water science to policymakers: are we missing the point? 16 Apr 2013 | 09:37 pm
A recent article from The Guardian Higher Education Network blog entitled “How academics can engage with policy: 10 tips for a better conversation” provided ideas to help scholars better convey resear...
What kind of world do we want after 2015? 2 Feb 2013 | 01:58 am
Sometimes it can feel difficult to make our voices heard on this big planet. But I just found out about a new website created by the United Nations with civil society groups to collect ideas for solvi...
Talking Poo with You: World Toilet Summit 2012 30 Nov 2012 | 02:21 am
It seems a progress is being made in getting the world to talk poo. Some people know that 2.5 million humans lack safe access to toilets and over 4,000 kids die each day from diarrhea illnesses linked...
Celebrating World Toilet Day 2012 Locally and Globally 19 Nov 2012 | 10:25 pm
Water and toilets are inextricably linked, but toilets sometimes take a backseat to water problems occurring worldwide. But if you don’t have water, you can’t have some styles of toilets or proper hyg...
Atlanta Artist Depicts People of Nature 19 Oct 2012 | 01:35 am
A human-nature binary exists today where many organized humans believe they are separate from wild nature. Some argue this perceived division is leading to ruin, and one visual artist is examining suc...
Water and Toilets for Humans w/o Homes 8 Oct 2012 | 09:08 pm
On a recent trip to my hometown, I traveled two hours north to visit a close family member living on the streets. He is chronically homeless, and it deeply saddens me he is unable to accept housing as...
What is your definition of global water shortage? 26 Sep 2012 | 10:58 pm
A few weeks ago a freshman from City College of New York contacted me to ask a simple question for her Environmental Psychology class: “What is your take on the global water shortage?” She believed ma...
Real Time Data for Water and Sanitation 16 Sep 2012 | 12:29 am
If you’ve been following recent events like World Water Week or the online Transparency in the Water Sector talk, you’ve heard a lot of buzz about real time data collection. Real time data collection ...
Water n’ Food – PSA-a-thon Series 9 Sep 2012 | 05:07 am
In honor of this year’s World Water Week and World Water Day themes of Water and Food Security, it’ll be fun to see some Public Service Announcements conveying a similar message. It was actually a bit...
