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Blog Action Day 2010: Let´s blog about our right to clean water.

So far more than 1600 bloggers from 100 countries have registered to participate in the worldwide Blog Action Day on 15 October 2010, a global call to unite bloggers and raise awareness about the issue of water.

At 2aid.org, we would like to take this opportunity and participate by inviting you and our (mainly german) community on facebook to share your views and ideas with us. As a Germany based Non-Profit Organization we use only our social media networks, such as facebook and twitter, to raise awareness and funds for projects in developing countries. So far we have managed to build three wells with our Ugandan partner Emesco.

Water Scarcity and the lack of sanitation is still a stressing problem in many developing countries and a major cause for water related diseases. Despite all efforts to reduce the lack of access to drinking water by 2015 as part of the MDGs, there are still nearly 1 Bill. people without access to clean water. This summer, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution to declare the right to clean drinking water for all.

While clean water ist abundant and accessible in Europe, we also face serious water challenges here, whether it is the growing lack of water due to intensive agrobusiness in mediteranian countries or the privatisation of former communal water supply in Germany.

  • What do you think will change, now that clean water is a declared right by the United Nations. Will it have an impact or change the approach towards development?
  • Have you seen any water related campaigns or projects that particulary affected you?

Please join the discussion and blog about water. We are planning a sum up as a collective contribution for the Blog Action Day.

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Here are some ways to participate:

Interview with a FACT Challenge Winner: Macheru Karuku from the E-Peace Building Project (Crossposted from Netsquared.org)

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 16 November, 2010 - 13:32

Netsquared is starting to post follow-up interviews with the 5 FACT Challenge Winners - Kabissa Connections is among them and will be featured next week. I will be crossposting the African project interviews here to share them with the Kabissa community and invite you to explore the project ideas, learn from them and give them your support. Read on to learn about the E-Peace Building Project in Kenya's Ewaso Ngiro River Basin.

Water and sanitation, practical pioneers - via the internet

Submitted by Pamela McLean on 16 October, 2010 - 15:17

October 15th is blog action day and the topic is water.

What could I say about water?  I live in the UK. I have normal hot and cold running water. I haven't even got a power shower, dishwasher or fancy garden water feature - just simple household running water - nothing remarkable - just ordinary water - drinking water. What is there to say?

Ordinary? Drinking water? Running water? Drinking water running to my house? That's ordinary? The running drinking water that I have... that is normal?

What are you going to write about WATER IN AFRICA for Blog Action Day?

Submitted by Tobias Eigen on 15 October, 2010 - 11:19

Happy Blog Action Day everyone! The topic this year is WATER. Kabissa members are invited to blog about water in AFRICA. You can send in your posts via email to connect@groups.kabissa.org or post online to http://kabissa.org/group/connect (if you get a notification back you need to join the group).

Below are some great tips from the Blog Action Day team on what to write about on this important day for bringing the world together around the crucial issue of water. 

 

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