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ClearWaterProject: Building a movement for clean water & cultural survival
“Without clean water, we cannot survive,” Emergildo Criollo told me recently. 
You may have heard of Emergildo. An indigenous leader of the Cofan Nation in Ecuador’s northern Amazon, he has been a relentless advocate for his people, speaking out about oil giant Chevron’s toxic legacy in his territory. But today, even as he continues the fight to hold Chevron accountable, Emergildo isn’t waiting for a cleanup that seems always on the horizon.
Emergildo is taking matters into his own hands, helping to bring clean water to thousands of indigenous people who have suffered without for decades. And today, I want to ask you to support Emergildo, and the other indigenous leaders who are part of an effort that Amazon Watch is deeply proud to support:
It’s called The ClearWater Project.
Established in late 2011 by long-time Amazon Watch campaigner Mitch Anderson, ClearWater was a response to Emergildo’s clarion call for clean water, where access to this basic necessity can be a matter of life and death.
ClearWater began with a big goal: provide safe, sustainable access to clean water for every indigenous family in the region, whose ancestral waterways have been poisoned by oil production and ensuing industrialization.
In just two years, ClearWater has installed more than 500 family-sized rainwater harvesting and filtration systems that serve thousands of people in communities who have long suffered an epidemic of cancer, birth defects, and other illnesses that numerous health studies in the region blame on a lack of access to safe sources of water for drinking, bathing, and cooking.
And our efforts have been able to make this impact because from the beginning, ClearWater has been a collaborative partnership between the five indigenous nationalities here – the Cofan, Siona, Secoya, Kichwa, and Waorani – and international supporters, such as water engineers, humanitarians, activists, philanthropists, and people like you.
ClearWater believes in collaborative, integrative, community-led solutions, where someone like Emergildo is coordinating amongst the different indigenous nationalities to install new water systems, local youth are using GPS to map their biological and cultural resources, and frontline leaders are learning new media techniques to broadcast their concerns to the world.
Clean water, health, and dignity. From this foundation, Emergildo and the indigenous people of Ecuador’s northern Amazon, are building a movement for rainforest protection and cultural survival.
I’m proud that Amazon Watch is a founding partner in this project, and I hope you’ll join us too.
In solidarity,
Han Shan
Amazon Watch Advisory Board Member
P.S. Explore ClearWater’s impact by navigating around this cutting-edge interactive map designed by another Amazon Watch family member, Gregor MacLennan, now Digital Democracy’s Program Director.
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Water: does it go bad?
Updated December 02, 2016.
Bottled water may carry an expiration date, but under typical storage conditions it does not go bad. baona/iStock
Question: Does Bottled Water Go Bad?
Most bottled water has an expiration date stamped on the bottle, but does the bottled water actually go bad? If so, how long is bottled water good? Here’s the answer to this common question.
Answer: Although bottled water has an expiration date, it doesn’t actually go bad. Why is there an expiration date on a product that doesn’t go bad? This is because New Jersey requires all food and beverages, including water, to carry an expiration date on its packaging. It doesn’t matter if you don’t live in New Jersey… your water may carry an expiration date anyway to make it easier to standardize packaging. Some bottled water only carries its bottling date or a ‘best by’ date. These dates are helpful because the flavor of the water will change over time as it absorbs chemicals from its packaging. The flavor will not necessarily be bad, but it may be noticeable.
Leaching of chemicals from packaging is a health concern, but as far as toxic chemicals go, you can get exposure to most of those chemicals from freshly bottled water as well as bottled water that has been on the shelf a while.
A ‘plastic’ taste is not necessarily an indicator that the water is bad; absence of an unpleasant flavor does not mean the water is free from contaminants.
While algae and bacteria will not grow in sealed bottled water, the situation changes once the seal has been broken. You should consume or discard water within 2 weeks after opening it.
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Basic Tips for saving water in Washington …from USA.gov
Saving Water Partnership
Seattle and participating water utilities
Many people think that having an environmentally friendly house means spending thousands of dollars on solar panels or planting a garden on the roof to keep the house cool during the summer time.
That’s not really the case. There are many things you can do to help the environment without having to transform your home, or even spend too much money. In fact, you might end up saving hundreds of dollars per year in the process.
For more information click on the link below
http://www.USA.gov
chief victims of global warming are women
women walk miles for water and gather the firewood … and women grow the food
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meet some of Trump’s White House Team –
Donald Trump campaigne
d on a divisive agenda of racism, misogyny, and xenophobia. Now Trump and his cronies have formally begun their assault on our core American values.
Trump’s responsibility as President-elect is to appoint responsible and qualified leaders to head our government agencies, set national policy, and stand up for American interests and values.
Instead, Trump selected a white nationalist champion1 as his chief strategist and a climate science denier2 to head his EPA transition team.
Donald Trump has unequivocally failed in his first responsibility as President-elect and shown that he will likely govern the way he campaigned — pitting Americans against each other, spreading hate and fear, and promising to befriend Big Oil insiders and corporate polluters.3
We can’t sit back and let Trump get his way. We must stand together and demand better. This is what a robust democracy is all about.
Meet some of Trump’s latest appointments to his inner circle.
Steve Bannon, Chief White House Strategist
Bannon championed the white nationalist movement and gave voice to racism, anti-semitism, and nationalism as the former head of Breitbart News.4 Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke called Bannon’s appointment “excellent” news that shows Trump is “sticking to the issues and the ideas that he proposed as a candidate.”5
Myron Ebell, head of Trump’s EPA transition team
Ebell is a fervent denier of climate science and has for years worked spreading misinformation at an advocacy group funded by the fossil fuel industry.6 Trump has put Ebell in charge of his EPA transition team, where he will work to dismantle the agency responsible for protecting our climate and keeping our air and water clean.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn, member of Trump’s transition team
Amid criticism for having appointed no women other than his daughter to his transition team, Trump added Blackburn, best known for leading a politically motivated investigation into Planned Parenthood, threatening research that has the potential to cure Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease.7 But Blackburn isn’t a single-issue crackpot: She also falsely claims the earth is cooling.8
Commit to push back on Trump’s toxic agenda.
NextGen Climate is part of the movement to stand against the Trump presidency. We’re glad you’re with us.
Michael Kieschnick
National Campaign Manager
NextGen Climate
1 Vox – Steve Bannon, the Trump adviser who spent years mainstreaming white nationalism, explained
2 PBS – Meet Myron Ebell, the Climate Contrarian Leading Trump’s EPA Transition
3 CNN – Donald Trump is a double-edged sword for oil
4 Los Angeles Times – What is the alt-right? A refresher course on Steve Bannon’s fringe brand of conservatism
5 CNN – White nationalists see advocate in Steve Bannon who will hold Trump to his campaign promises
6 The Washington Post – Trump taps climate-change skeptic to oversee EPA transition
7 The Washington Post – Republicans finish discrediting their Planned Parenthood investigation
8 Slate – Senior House Republican Says Earth Is Cooling
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