Artists and Musicians1 Water
The international observance of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Ja
neiro. It inspired the creation of our EarthSayers special collection around the idea of "One Water." It addresses a wide range of issues including, but not limited to water supply, security, rights, and pollution.
The organization, One Water, puts the challenge succinctly: "Providing clean and safe water to everybody around the world is among the greatest challenges facing us today." Two other organizations asking for support are charity:water and water.org.
Bob Sandford is the EPCOR Chair of the Canadian Partnership Initiative
in support of United Nations "Water for Life" Decade. This national
partnership initiative aims to advance long-term water quality and
availability issues in response to climate change in this country and
abroad. He is an
advisor to Unilever Canada on its "Go Blue!" water conservation program
and was recently appointed a Fellow of the Biogeoscience Institute at
the University of Calgary. His latest book, Cold Matters: The State
& Fate of Canada's Freshwater Resources will be published in the
spring of 2011.
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