Team 4: Water Is Life

Protect Clean Water. #WaterIsLife Water as a Human Right. Protect Water Ecosystems. No Drilling. No Fracking. Water Testing. Conservation. Stormwater. Greywater, etc.

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“Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers announced a revised proposal that would gut bedrock Clean Water Act protections for nearly all wetlands and streams by drastically narrowing what waterways will be considered “Waters of the United States.”

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**“Advanced filtration systems can also reduce DBPs, nitrates and heavy metals at the same time.**
The research underscores the fact that PFAS water filtration systems can also help reduce levels of cancer-causing disinfection byproducts, or DBPs, agricultural nitrates and heavy metals like arsenic and uranium – all chemicals linked to health harms.
EWG’s study also identified systemic inequities: Only 7% of very small water systems, defined as those serving fewer than 500 people, use advanced filtration. As a result, millions of Americans in rural and underresourced communities remain exposed to PFAS, hazardous disinfection byproducts and heavy metals.
**By contrast, 28% of the largest utilities use the technology.”**

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“The High Seas Treaty establishes marine protected areas in these high seas which will help achieve the global goal of protecting 30% of the world's oceans - made at the UN biodiversity conference last year.”

Athabasca Chipewyan Chief Allan Adam told me today his community members in Fort Chip have been dying of cancers & disease at high rates for years. His father died. Now his father-in-law is dying. He believes it’s due to contamination of the water/land/air from oil sands. He says… pic.twitter.com/IWeOOc4GBk
— Brandi Morin (@Songstress28) August 24, 2023

Big oil poisoned the water, fish, people and land.

Link to sign on letter

Flint Water Crisis: Everything You Need to Know

Clean Water Act

Cuyahoa-River-Fire-Full-Cleveland-Press-Collections.jpg — How a Burning River Helped Create the Clean Water Act

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💧SDG #6 Goal: Ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation.

💧SDG #6.3 “By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials...“

💧”Wastewater generated by economic activities such as manufacturing industries may contain a variety of pollutants, including hazardous substances.”

💧”The focus on recycling, for example, recirculating water within an industry, and safe reuse, for example, using wastewater in agriculture, are complementary to the focus of SDG target 6.4 on reducing freshwater withdrawals and improving use efficiency.”

According to the UN:

💧1 in 4 health care facilities lacks basic water services

💧3 in 10 people lack access to safely managed drinking water services

💧Women and girls are responsible for water collection in 80% of households without access to water on premises.

💧Water scarcity affects more than 40% of the global population and is projected to rise.

💧2.4 billion people lack access to basic sanitation services, such as toilets or latrines

💧Each day, nearly 1,000 children die due to preventable water and sanitation-related diarrheal diseases

💧Floods and other water-related disasters account for 70% of all deaths related to natural disasters.