Getting to Water
Welcome to the Getting to Water project
People need hope, but they aren’t getting any, at least not about their water.
But counter to what you may be hearing on your TV, phone, or other social media, there are many reasons to feel hopeful about water. I have had the opportunity to gather stories from across the globe about how people are cooperating with one another to access, protect, and divide shared waters. The news is good! In almost every case, with a lot of hard work, people are not only sharing our most precious resource but building trust, respect, inclusion, and cooperation. The stories I have gathered will be featured in an upcoming book, Saving Our Water and Ourselves. Meanwhile, check below for some of the great things people are doing to make our water safe and accessible.
No water, no life. No blue, no green.
Sylvia Earle
Great News about Water – Featured Media
Dallas Crum // Co-Founder of Vivid Roots
In Episode 4 of the Disruptors for Good podcast I spoke with Dallas Crum, co-founder of Vivid Roots, a social impact travel/apparel company impacting lives in Guatemala and Ecuador.
Who Owns Water
by David Hanson, documentary film maker and writer.
Two brothers, David and Michael Hanson, maneuver the complex waters of the ACF basin, shared by Alabama, Georgia and Florida, in southeastern USA, in this insightful film. Click the image to watch the trailer.
The New Way Forward
How California farmers, fish and fowl are thriving in one place
No Going Back
How farmers are helping to bring back the salmon in California
New Reservoir – Lee Brenneisen Foundation
How Innov8Africa is providing clean water for school children and communities in Africa
Here are a few links to groups working to manage water around the world
Who Owns Water?– a thought-provoking film on shared waters – Visit »
Delaware River Basin Commission – Visit »
Upper Colorado River Basin Commission – Visit »
International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River – Visit »
Pani Panchayat- Communal Groundwater Management, India – Visit »
Innov8AFRICA: providing clean water, education and innovation in Africa – Visit »
Join the Getting to Water project!
Join the Getting to Water Project! Please feel free to share any case studies or stories, large or small. Even one individual’s contribution to sharing or protecting water is valuable. If you have any questions, Contact me by email here »
Your tax-deductible donations are greatly appreciated and will help support travel, publishing, marketing expenses. You can follow progress on this website as well as my Getting to Water Facebook page.
Thanks for the generous and essential contributions from my donors
Special thanks to the following supporters
Bradley Currey (in Memoriam) was an indispensable benefactor for the Getting to Water® project, donating funding for over three years which provided essential support for the research and writing phases of Saving our Water and Ourselves. Mr. Currey retired as Chairman and CEO of Rock-Tenn Company, a manufacturer of packaging and recycled paperboard products with over $1 billion in sales. He also served as Deputy Chairman and Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Currey was a trustee emeritus of Emory University, and previous Director of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce for many years.
The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) and Dr. Margaret Palmer, Director of SESYNC, generously provided travel funding to the Getting to Water project through the Practice and Policy Fellowship Program. SESYNC is a multi-disciplinary think tank which to brings together global participants from the natural and social sciences to help resolve complex socio-environmental issues. It is located in Annapolis, MD, and supported by funding from the National Science Foundation (DBI-1052875). For more information visit www.sesync.org
Flint Riverkeeper, Inc.,acts as a fiscal agent to receive and distribute funds raised for the Getting to Water® project. The Flint Riverkeeper (FRk) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) established in 2008 with the goal of protecting the Flint River in its most natural state for future generations to enjoy. Special thanks to Gordon Rogers, Executive Director and Flint Riverkeeper since 2009.
Contact: flintriverkeeper.org
Phone: +1 (229) 435-2241
Contact: kathleenrugel@gmail.com
Phone: +1 (706) 410 4952
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