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Water week: A refreshing roundup

WaterHope you had a nice World Water Day yesterday! A whole watery series of posts kicked off on Monday with a little roundup on how to take individual action on this big global issue. Now, here's a roundup from all the events of the week:

>> L.A. Tap Project: Eat out, drink tap water, do good. Restaurants all over L.A. participated in this UNICEF campaign to help make clean tap water available to children around the world.

>> World Water Day gets a concert in Second Life. WaterPartners International, a nonprofit that provides safe drinking water and sanitation to people in developing countries, is trying to bring the water issue closer to home -- or more accurately, the computer -- by letting people travel virtually to experience the global water crisis.

>> Walk for Water: A Stroll by the beach becomes activism. Angelenos celebrated World Water Day by joining the Walk for Water -- an awareness-raising event "inspired by the 3-6 mile journey women and children make every day in water stressed countries"  at the Santa Monica Pier.

>> FilterForGood: Filtered tap water plus reusable water bottle. Brita and Nalgene have combined their forces to create the FilterForGood campaign, encouraging people to drink filtered tap water in to-go reusable bottles instead of continuously buying bottled water. Not to be outdone, CamelBak's come out with a new BPA-free water bottle -- though that's made of a difficult-to-recycle plastic too.

With the growing number of water-related concerns, from water shortages in SoCal to water sanitation issues in India, I'm guessing World Water Day will get a lot more attention when it comes back around next year. Until then, ditch the bottled water habit and embrace tap water!

Previous weekly green topics: de-car-ing, energy, bring your own, recycle, green clean, green workplace

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jon button

Nothing seems as wasteful or frustrating to me than all the people hosing off their driveways and sidewalks. Can these people please get a broom? It does a better job, won't waste gallons of water and might just work off that big gulp they had a lunch.

Susan

I live in a hilly area and "my" neighbor starts two houses up from his to wash down the street into the storm drain. So he not only rinses off his driveway but about 6 houses worth of THE STREET! Unfortunately, you're never going to get some people to be more careful with water until there are consequences such as fines.

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