Touch the Soil News #2016 (photo – Water Spigot- (CCA 3.0 Unported, Schyler ) The Vancouver Sun (from British Columbia, Canada) presented a fairly in-depth assessment of the city of Vancouver’s municipal water situation. When reading through the article, the question that arises is how familiar are we to the water security of our own…
Positive Future News #913 (Feature Photo – Singapore – CCA 2.0 Generic, Ray in Manila) Water awareness is as essential as political awareness, if not more. Politics can change, access to water can’t. The story of water in the United States is simple. Water sources, from rivers and from pumping out of the ground, have…
Positive Future #771 (Feature photo – Modern Desalination Plant – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, James Grellier) Estimates are that 1,000 children die each day from water-borne diseases – a cause of lack of access to clean and safe water. Access to water for agriculture, personal consumption and industry is a key driver of how the…
Touch the Soil News #1632 (Feature Photo – Water Hose – CCA SA 3.0, TCAtexas) The Chicago Sun Times journalists Manny Ramos and Sam Cholke bring us the story of steep water-price hikes for community gardens in Chicago. The prices are so high due to new restrictions by the Chicago Department of Water Management that…
