"Do not take our water." A simple message. Don't take our water. Over the past ten months, communities in the peripheral northwest region of Fortaleza, Brazil have begun to organize against the state's "water security plan" to manage the five-year drought for the metropolitan region of 3.5 million people. The plan, which attends to the …
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Observations from Emily Vandewalle, a graduate student who just completed her MS in Geography and now is off to the Philippines to work with a water NGO.
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Rather than drink tap water delivered through community water systems, thousands of families living in south Texas "colonias," low-income peri-urban and rural subdivisions on the US-Mexico border, rely on private water vending machines. My recent study discovered that over 87% of the surveyed colonias households relied on 50% or more of drinking water from the water …
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From GeoNews Most Americans take for granted the ability to turn on a faucet when thirsty or to fill a pot for cooking. But a Texas A&M researcher has found that segments of the population, especially along the Texas-Mexican border, exist in a “no-win waterscape,” with no easy access to clean water, no ability to …
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