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Flow to Have Meeting in Park July 3 |
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Written by arthur wilkie
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 |
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Lucerne FLOW will be holding a meeting open to the public in Alpine Park on July 3rd. The potluck dinner starts at 6:30 and the meeting at 7 P.M. The meeting is an effort to get more people into FLOW group and so the public will learn about their rising water bills. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 14 June 2008 )
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Looking for a job worth doing? |
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Written by LCWO
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Tuesday, 01 April 2008 |
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Food and Water Watch, the Washington, DC-based nonprofit consumer organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food, is expanding and has several job openings posted on its website, http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/about/career-opportunities. The jobs range from science analyst to organizers, fundraisers and writers. Some are in California, some have international duties. Northern California organizer Adam Scow and his predecessor,Organizing Director Victoria Kaplan, were extremely helpful to Lucerne Community Water Organization in its 2005 rate intervention with the California Public Utilities Commission.
Food & Water Watch challenges the corporate control and abuse of our food and water resources by empowering people to take action and by transforming the public consciousness about what we eat and drink. Food & Water Watch works with grassroots organizations around the world to create an economically and environmentally viable future. Through research, public and policymaker education, media, and lobbying, they advocate policies that guarantee safe, wholesome food produced in a humane and sustainable manner and public, rather than private, control of water resources including oceans, rivers, and groundwater. |
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Water's hot topic in film |
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Written by LCWO
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Saturday, 15 March 2008 |
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Two new films join the successful Thirst in spreading news of the global water crisis. FLOW: For Love Of Water, by Irena Salina, highlights the local intimacies of an emerging global catastrophe: African plumbers reconnect shantytown water pipes under cover of darkness to ensure a community's survival; a Californian scientist forces awareness of shockingly toxic public water sources; a ‘Big Water’ CEO argues privatization is the wave of the future; a “Water Guru” in India sparks new community water initiatives in hundreds of villages; a Canadian author uncovers the corporate profiteering that drives global water business. Video clips are available on the official movie site at http://flowthefilm.com/about.php. Sanjeev Chatterjee is vice dean of the University of Miami's School of Communications. He wrote, produced and directed One Water, an innovative documentary that premiered at the Miami Film Festival in March.
Q. What inspired you to make this film about the global water crisis? A In 2002 I was shooting a film in South Africa, and someone in an unrelated meeting said that if the wars of the 20th century were fought over oil, the wars of the 21st century will be fought over water. Having grown up in India, I knew what he was talking about. Living in South Florida, surrounded by water, you don't have a visual sense of what that means. You don't see the lack of infrastructure and delivery or the pollution of surface water that is so prevalent in India and China. At that time, we were talking about doing a project with new high-definition cameras. The idea was to create a film that could be shown all over world with very few words, and it would be a visually immersive experience. Our desire is to have an audience that is in the moment and moved to do something about it. So we are building a website that asks journalists to address what action is needed; the website, www.onewater.org, will be launched on March 22, which is World Water Day. Read more at: http://www.miamiherald.com/851/story/457651.html at the university website: http://www.onewater.org/water-doc.htm |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 01 April 2008 )
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