Care About Water
At Ame Ame we believe all people and the environment deserve easy access to clean, abundant water, both fresh and salty. Such water is a threatened resource and it’s a topic that often gets neglected. Thus with Ame Ame’s love for rain, we hope to bring more attention to the matter. As this section of the site develops, we want to educate people about various water issues, such as the ability to simultaneously provide water and playgrounds to villages in places like Kenya and Cambodia by donating to www.PlayPump.org. In the meanwhile, if you already have thoughts about water issues please get in touch with us by emailing info@amerain.com . We care about what’s on your mind and what you think matters. Rain or Shine, Teresa Soroka
Think the government is protecting your drinking water? Then think again. The New York Times is starting "Toxic Waters" a critical series about the worsening pollution in American waters and regulator's responses. Read this article to realize that the Clean Water Act doesn't mean your drinking water is safe. Clean Water Laws are Neglected, at a Cost of Suffering But don't lose hope we can turn things around. Make this an important voting issue.
PBS Frontline produced a fantastic but very serious report called Poisoned Waters. For anybody who cares about the Puget Sound, The Chesapeake Bay, and other bodies of waters be sure to watch this program.
As the Frontline excerpt below suggests, Poisoned Waters shows us, individuals like you and me are very much responsible for the suffering environment. In Poisoned Waters, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith examines the growing hazards to human health and the ecosystem. "The '70s were a lot about, 'We're the good guys; we're the environmentalists; we're going to go after the polluters,' and it's not really about that anymore," Jay Manning, director of ecology for Washington state, tells FRONTLINE. "It's about the way we all live. And unfortunately, we are all polluters. I am; you are; all of us are." Through interviews with scientists, environmental activists, corporate executives and average citizens impacted by the burgeoning pollution problem, Smith reveals startling new evidence that today's growing environmental threat comes not from the giant industrial polluters of old, but from chemicals in consumers' face creams, deodorants, prescription medicines and household cleaners that find their way into sewers, storm drains, and eventually into America's waterways and drinking water. "The environment has slipped off our radar screen because it's not a hot crisis like the financial meltdown, war or terrorism," Smith says. "But pollution is a ticking time bomb. It's a chronic cancer that is slowly eating away the natural resources that are vital to our very lives."
|
