World Water Day and Environmental Justice March 14, 2021 (“Clear Water Is Just worship service”)
Resources and Further Reading 1
General resources for World Water Day –
World Water Day – https://www.worldwaterday.org/ (Before World Water Day (March 22), use social media to share your own stories of what water means to you – #WorldWaterDay and #water2me.)
United Nations – World Water Day 22 March https://www.un.org/en/observances/water-day
World Vision – Global water crisis: Facts, FAQs, and how to help https://www.worldvision.org/clean-water-news-stories/global-water-crisis-facts
From Not Enough to Too Much, the World’s Water Crisis Explained Stephen Leahy March 22, 2018 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/03/world-water-day- water-crisis-explained/
United States –
Water Scarcity – The U.S. Connection Shannyn Snyder https://thewaterproject.org/water-scarcity/water_scarcity_in_us
America’s Clean Water Crisis Goes Far Beyond Flint. There’s No Relief in Sight By Justin Worland February 20, 2020 https://time.com/longform/clean-water-access-united-states/
The Looming U.S. Water Crisis – America is going through a water crisis, and we’re going to face even more dire times if it doesn’t begin to change soon. Andreea Sterea Thursday, December 19, 2019 https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/12/19/looming-us-water-crisis
Erin Brockovich on America’s water crisis and why no one is coming to save us Nov 22, 2020 Christopher Booker https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/erin-brockovich-on-americas-water-crisis-and-why- no-one-is-coming-to-save-us
1 Thank you to UUCC member Ann Smith-Reiser for curating [most of] the items on this list!
World Water Day resources March 14, 2021 Page 1 of 3 Flint Water Crisis: Everything You Need to Know November 08, 2018 Melissa Denchak https://www.nrdc.org/stories/flint-water-crisis-everything-you-need-know
There's a crisis in small-town Louisiana – and it's only getting worse by Lanny Keller | Staff Writer Jun 25, 2019 https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/lanny_keller/article_06102b42-975e- 11e9-83e6-fb3b744fdeb0.html
OUR VIEW: Drinking water has become state crisis [Louisiana] The American Press Feb 7, 2019 https://www.americanpress.com/opinion/editorials/drinking-water-has-become-state- crisis/article_32e12683-ec4a-5f4d-82d1-5b528f742c98.html
A Looming Crisis for Local U.S. Water Systems? Feature Story | February 19, 2021 By Sara Frueh https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2021/02/a-looming-crisis-for-local-u-s-water- systems
Water and Environmental Justice –
Drinking Water a Little-Noticed Environmental Justice Problem By Joseph A. Davis March 28, 2018 https://www.sej.org/publications/backgrounders/drinking-water-little-noticed- environmental-justice-problem
Clean Water and the Environmental Justice Movement June 12, 2019 by Lauren Berg https://www.sharedjustice.org/most-recent/2019/6/12/clean-water-and-the- environmental-justice-movement
Environmental justice and drinking water quality: are there socioeconomic disparities in nitrate levels in U.S. drinking water? Laurel A. Schaider, Lucien Swetschinski, Christopher Campbell & Ruthann A. Rudel Research Published: 17 January 2019 https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-018-0442-6
Five years later: Flint water crisis most egregious example of environmental injustice, U-M researcher says April 23, 2019 Jim Erickson https://news.umich.edu/five-years-later-flint-water-crisis-most-egregious-example-of- environmental-injustice-u-m-researcher-says/
World Water Day resources March 14, 2021 Page 2 of 3 Environmental Justice and Democracy Failures at the Heart of Flint’s Water Crisis by Jesse Worker Jesse Worker and Elizabeth Moses May 10, 2016 https://www.wri.org/blog/2016/05/environmental-justice-and-democracy-failures-heart- flints-water-crisis
A Toilet, but No Proper Plumbing: A Reality in 500,000 U.S. Homes By Sabrina Tavernise Sept. 26, 2016 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/health/plumbing-united-states-poverty.html
Environmental Justice isn’t only about water…
The blackest city in the US is facing an environmental justice nightmare Detroit’s most vulnerable residents face inequalities like toxic air, lead poisoning, and water shutoffs. Now they’re fighting back Drew Costley Thu 9 Jan 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/09/the-blackest-city-in-the-is-us-facing- an-environmental-justice-nightmare
Miscellaneous –
Composting toilets could be the way of the future Alternative sanitation systems use creatures that find homes in human poop. By Nala Rogers June 24, 2019 https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/composting-toilets-future/story?id=63914168 ("I think that you should really make people understand how stupid it is to poop into clean water.")
Why Being Near Water Really Does Make Us Happier by Cassie Shortsleeve Wednesday 20 March 2019 https://www.cntraveller.com/gallery/why-being-near-water-really-does-make-us-happier
Ode To Our Ocean poem by Amanda Gorman https://atmos.earth/amanda-gorman-ocean-poem/
World Water Day resources March 14, 2021 Page 3 of 3