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By: Embattled Bottles, Troubled Tap: What Are We Supposed to Drink?

Embattled Bottles, Troubled Tap: What Are We Supposed to Drink? — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:41:30 +0000

[...] of  Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle over America’s Drinking Water, blogged the other day, 13,699 people a day die from preventable, water-related diseases in this [...]

By: Weekly Compactor: blogroll edition « everydaytrash

Weekly Compactor: blogroll edition « everydaytrash — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:00:43 +0000

[...] Elizabeth Royte turned us on bottled water art; [...]

By: Kerry Trueman: Bottled Water Takes A Blow Down Under, & Below The Belt » A Couple Things » A couple things about politics, sports, travel, and other stuff.

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:12:27 +0000

[...] author of Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle over America's Drinking Water, blogged the other day, 13,699 people a day die from preventable, water-related diseases in this [...]

By: Chuck DiLaura

Chuck DiLaura — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:42:00 +0000

Clean water, sanitation and health education transform lives with improved health, economic development and quality of life. Water For People is the charity of choice for the North American water and wastewater industries. Their model works!

By: Jeff Wagner

Jeff Wagner — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:07:20 +0000

Tthe issue of access to clean, healthy water exists in or own backyard as well as in developing nations. There are areas of the US where people use contaminated water everday due to myriad reasons – coal mining, oil/NG drilling, inadequate public infrastructure or local/state budget issues. Hats off to groups like livingwatersfortheworld.org who are addressing the issue internationally as well as nationally.

By: Rose George

Rose George — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:28:31 +0000

True enough, but in fact most of those “water-related diseases” are lack-of-sanitation/fecal-contamination related diseases. Dirty water, yes, but also fecally contaminated food and living environments. Hence a huge and disgraceful daily diarrhea death toll, and still people hide this enormous public health crisis behind the “water-related” euphemism. There’s not much point installing a clean water supply when people are defecating right next to it. I rate WaterAid; they’re big but one of the very few organizations willing to speak out about sanitation. Anyway thanks for the book and the good work (really liked your piece on toilet-to-tap a while back).

By: Objet d’Art From Bottled Water : AWRA Water Blog

Objet d’Art From Bottled Water : AWRA Water Blog — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:47:31 +0000

[...] Royte, auteur extraordinaire, has an item on her blog about artist Christine Destrempes’ installation entitled 13,699 – that number of [...]

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:14:57 +0000

Hard to compare all the orgs out there, but Charity:Water is another one that does good work.
http://charitywater.org/

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Twitted by Campanastan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:29:48 +0000

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By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:11:54 +0000

Thanks for the ACJ Foundation shout-out, Elizabeth. Much appreciated!