Blog Action Day: Measuring Your Water Footprint

By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson     This is Blog Action Day. Thousands of bloggers are writing about water. This is but one essay. The rest are here. When your water comes from a public water supply, it can be hard to remember what a treasure you have at your disposal. I grew to adulthood in what was [...]

Posted on October 14th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Clean Water, Climate Change, Conservation, Global warming, Water quality | 1 Comment »

UN Approves Water Rights Resolution, US Abstains

By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson The United Nations has declared access to clean and accessible water a fundamental human right. Apparently this is not the same as amending  the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , making water the 31st on the list of fundamental human rights. The UN’s UDHR page has not yet been amended to [...]

Posted on August 17th, 2010 by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Filed under: Clean Water, Social Justice, Water quality | 2 Comments »