Mickey Z

Cool Observer

Sunday, July 10, 2005

Water on the Brain

“When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.”
—Benjamin Franklin

Walk down most streets on Manhattan’s Upper East Side on a weekday morning and you’ll find yourself dodging the watery spray kicked up by dozens of hose-wielding doormen cleansing the pavement for the daily parade of designer shoes and custom running sneakers.

“Sixty-three hundred people in the world die every day from lack of water,” says Regina Birchem. She’s president of the Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom Congress...but I don’t know if her building has a doorman.

Your typical human being is 66 percent water and could survive roughly a month without food… but only a week without water. The 2004 UNICEF report on the State of the World’s Children found that one in seven of the world’s children had no access to safe water. It’s not a shortage… there is the same amount of water on Earth today as there was 3 billion years ago.

To read the complete article, please click here:
http://www.counterpunch.org/mickey07132005.html

(FYI: Maude Barlow, quoted in the article, is the long-serving chair of the Council of Canadians, one of the key organizations that helped nix the MAI agreements prior to Seattle. Tony Clarke is with the Polaris Institute. Thanks to CC for the clarification.)
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Thanks to everyone at Friends of Animals for inviting me to participate in their conference yesterday. A very excellent event that blended a wide array of perspectives and presenters with a lively audience and plenty of good vegan and raw food. Michele and I met lots of passionate, dedicated, and interesting people...and I’m proud to have been involved.

http://www.friendsofanimals.org/news/2005/june/foa-conference-mickey-z-ready-to-speak-on-spin-for-vegans.html