Happy World Water Week?
Posted by Saul Garlick, Executive Director
This morning, I woke up to an email from my father, it read: “Subject: water; Did you see the report of the World Water Forum meetin in Instanbul, this week? By 2030 when Holden (my nephew) will be 23, there will be 3.9 billion people living under ‘severe water stress. CHECK OUT THE ARTICLE.” Not exactly the uplifting news about World Water Week that I had hoped to read about (See info about the Forum here and the article here).
The news is a reminder of how seriously we must take the world water crisis. Currently 1.1 people lack access to clean drinking water, an astounding figure when you think of that relative to the size of the United States. That would be the equivalent of 3 times the entire population of the US lacking access to this most fundamental resource.
The news comes as Lily Muldoon, SMRC project director from Kenya returns home after a year-long effort to work with local community members on water, sanitation and education initiatives. Lily will join us in Washington DC for a special happy hour on Tuesday, March 24 from 5-7 to discuss her work. Join us for the event at Mandu on 18th and S, and engage in the complexities of the global water challenge. The need for action is now, and the opportunity to learn first hand from someone taking action, is the ideal place to get started.
