Problem: Guadalajara, Mexico is experiencing water scarcity at an advanced stage. Lake Chapala, Mexico’s largest lake, is currently drying up. Guadalajara receives water from Lake Chapala where diminishing water, rampant pollution, and rapid population growth combine to create increasing scarcity. The communities I plan to work with are at a critical point in fighting the construction of the Arcediano dam which will force the dislocation of one community and severely threatens the health of the other....

Action: Adapting to Scarcity is a community water rights and media empowerment project designed to support Guadalajara’s citizen movements for environmental justice and affordable clean drinking water, and to enhance its impact, visibility and synergy with other water rights movements in the world. We are based in Guadalajara, Mexico and work in collaboration with the Mexican Institute of Community Development (Instituto Mexicano para el Desarollo Comunitario).   O...

Problem: Joachim Ezeji formulou a idéia para o Projeto Rural Africano de Desenvolvimento de Água (Rural African Water Development Project – RAWDP) em 2000. Como Oficial de Programa de uma companhia de engenharia, sub-contratado pela Shell Petroleum, Ezeji supervisionou a manutenção de 14 projetos comunitários de água e saneamento. Durante seu trabalho, ele percebeu que haviam questões sociais e de água que necessitavam de atenção, e teve a idéia de criar uma organização para lidar com estas lacunas. O...

Action: Promover a saúde pública por meio de uma intervenção apropriada para o tratamento e saneamento de água residencial, particularmente em comunidades ambientalmente devastadas na Nigéria.   Serviços Oferecidos: Oficinas para equipar participantes com conhecimento necessário para a produção do filtro Mor-sand, conhecimento básico da composição da água, ciclo da água, meio para filtro, processos de filtragem de água, sedimentação, desinfecção e saneamento; consultas com grupos iniciando estratégi...

Problem: Aladimma Owerri, Nigeria -- Facing widespread cases of gastrointestinal problems due to contaminated water, there had to be a solution. Teaching people basic domestic sanitation practices and development of healthy lifestyles included encouraging people to boil water. This raised the cost hurdle of boiling the water or treating with aluminum.    Joachim Ezeji formulated the idea for the Rural African Water Development Project (RAWDP) in 2000. As Program Officer with an engineering company, su...

Action: To promote public health through appropriate intervention in household water treatment and sanitation, particularly in the environmentally ravaged communities in Nigeria.   Methods of daily domestic (point of use rather than point of source preventing potential recontamination) water filtration in the Niger delta region vary according to what people can afford. Methods include (1) boiling water, least expensive, (2) Moringa "dosing" sedimentation, (3) Biosand filter, (4) Alum, which is most...

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