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Here you see a group of Maasai villagers gathered together to shyly welcome us, and wearing their “Sunday Best” as we personally delivered the water filters to them. It was a beyond humbling experience.
This is the water hole that provides water for this village that we visited. As you can see the water is murky and full of sediment. This is the water that the villagers have to drink. These villagers are lucky they only have to walk ¼ mile to get to the well, others less fortunate, have to walk much longer distances to get to the wells or watering holes, then carry the water back home Please stop today, for a moment, to appreciate the ease of our lives in the developed world.
baby, I'll carry you all the way home
When a merman claims you, there's no going back.
Will you come home with me?
A few years ago, an American woman and pottery instructor, during a visit to villages realized that many of the people of Africa do not have access to clean drinking water, so she co-founded “Safe Water Ceramics of East Africa” which now produces affordable ceramic water filters, a single one provides 5 years of clean, filtered water for one family. Here you see a representative of “Safe Water” showing villagers how the filters work and how to clean and maintain them. We provided filters for 6 families in this one village, with the promise of several more in the coming week.
Curled up and enjoying being here^^
EVERY Saturday at NOON SL Time.
Been a mermaid almost my entire SL, it is NOT a new thing for me. Zooby Mers are recent and I am in LOVE. We are a family. Where can you go with your Zooby Baby Mers? Here!
ALL are welcome. Dinkies, furries, kitties, humans, mers, dragons, CHILDREN (Prim, mesh, avi, must be able to wear or move on their own as this is a NO rezz location!)
Places to swim around? Try our list of hangouts. Maybe even offer to become a hangout. Find regions to bring your babies and swim in DEEP water!
List of Hangouts: swfsl.com/hangouts
*List will be updated soon with another new location!
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Visit this location at Safe Waters Cove ~ Mermaid Undersea Rentals in Second Life
EVERY Saturday at NOON SL Time.
Been a mermaid almost my entire SL, it is NOT a new thing for me. ALL are welcome. Dinkies, furries, kitties, humans, mers, dragons, CHILDREN (Prim, mesh, avi, must be able to wear or move on their own as this is a NO rezz location!)
I only had one bit of news to share:
Happy Weekend: April 19 - April 20, 2025
www.seraphimsl.com/2025/04/19/have-an-egg-stra-happy-week...
Yokai has some cute penguin stuffies and one has fins.
Fantasy Faire is OPEN...ARE YOU READY??!!
A friend pointed out that LL dropped the fee to one cent, right around Easter and the first full weekend of the Fantasy Faire! Happy accident? NOPE! People will have more to spend and a perfect excuse to do it!
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They are fishing in the channel between White Lake and Lake Michigan. They are doing this because Lake Michigan was very rough that day and the channel provided safer waters.
It's been pretty hot and stormy around there those days. The cool thing is that within a few miles perimeter you can leave the city behind to beautiful places like this one where the air is cooler.
Ça a été plutôt chaud et orageux ces derniers temps par ici. Ce qui est bien c'est que dans un périmètre de quelques kilomètres on peut laisser la ville derrière soi pour de magnifiques endroits comme celui-ci, où en plus l'air est plus frais.
Today's Tune ==> Safewaters - Chevelle
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_Twinning
an interesting scheme that benefits many.
1 in 4 people in the world don't have access to a loo.
No, that talking stick doesn't have dragon teeth marks on it. Nope.
Visit this location at Safe Waters Foundation Headquarters in Second Life
“To me a good house means having a toilet and a water connection. We have made it our priority to build a toilet in the house.”
Today Tirotama has a water connection that gets water twice daily for two hours. The quality of water is clean. There is enough water for cooking and drinking.
Drinking from the river amid heavy traffic - Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Much of the effects of climate change in the Mekong Region will be felt through water - at different times too much, too little or of poor quality, with the additional threat of severe storms.
People in the Mekong live close to natural water bodies and rely on them for drinking, washing and transport. As cities expand these water bodies are becoming increasingly polluted raising a whole host of public health challenges.
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Kodihalli village - She makes wreaths and flower garlands to sell. Whole street connected to water at about the same time.
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Her existing water connection is piped in, so there is no risk of contamination from the improved pit toilets DSC_1657-m
Woman collecting water from a hand pump.
Site visit to potential partner ORDA.
Achefar, Ethiopia.
(ETH_0123_OR094 - Heather Arney)
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Public water connection, safe to drink, near Farazana's home (installed by city)
28/09/15
The Illawarra Knitting Nannas Against Gas (IKNAG) held a 'knit-in" outside the office of Craig Kelly, Federal member for Hughes.
www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-03-10-drugs-tap-water_N...
A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows. . . . The presence of so many prescription drugs — and over-the-counter medicines like acetaminophen and ibuprofen — in so much of our drinking water is heightening worries among scientists of long-term consequences to human health.
. . . Some drugs, including widely used cholesterol fighters, tranquilizers and anti-epileptic medications, resist modern drinking water and wastewater treatment processes. Plus, the EPA says there are no sewage treatment systems specifically engineered to remove pharmaceuticals.
Human waste isn't the only source of contamination. Cattle, for example, are given ear implants that provide a slow release of trenbolone, an anabolic steroid used by some bodybuilders, which causes cattle to bulk up. But not all the trenbolone circulating in a steer is metabolized. A German study showed 10% of the steroid passed right through the animals. Water sampled downstream of a Nebraska feedlot had steroid levels four times as high as the water taken upstream.
Also, pharmaceuticals in waterways are damaging wildlife across the nation and around the globe, research shows. Notably, male fish are being feminized, creating egg yolk proteins, a process usually restricted to females. Pharmaceuticals also are affecting sentinel species at the foundation of the pyramid of life — such as earth worms in the wild and zooplankton in the laboratory, studies show.
www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/sep/20/whats-in-your-water/
Federal and state inspectors test water purity by using regulations mostly set in the 1970s. Numerous chemicals have come on the scene since then, but regulators are not required to test for many of them. . . . Renee Hoyos, executive director of the Tennessee Clean Water Network, pointed out that scientists and regulators did not think years ago that the insecticide DDT was dangerous. She said that while government regulation requires water systems to be free of contaminants such as bacteria and mud, regulators are not staying up with the emergence of pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals that might end up in a glass of tap water.
"The EPA requires that drinking water plants test for about 100 chemicals, and that's a very short list of (all) chemicals that we know are out there that could be in water," she said.
www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/us/17water.html?_r=1
www.epa.gov/safewater/dwinfo/index.html
#110 in a series for one photo a day for a year
SAN PEDRO, Calif. - Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Mahasin Abdullah works on a voice-over for a kids safety cartoon, Feb. 11. The cartoon, named Station Safewater, aims to teach young children how to stay safe on the beach, in the water, and on a boat. Abdullah is voicing the part of Petty Officer 2nd Class Haley, who teaches the kids how important it is to not play on marine radios and make false distress calls. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Adam Eggers.
VIRIN: 110211-G-7518E-014
What's in your water?
EPA Guide to Local Drinking Water by State ~ consumer water quality reports from the EPA, by state. Find out what's in your State's drinking water.
Health Effects of Drinking Water Contaminants ~ a fact sheet from the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service. The four groups of contaminants are microbial pathogens, organics (VOCs, THMs, Pesticides), inorganics and radioactive elements.
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A. Maherwari, 10 years drinking from the new school handpump.
Keelakarthigaipatti, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India.
(IND_0024_144 - Gary White)
During humanitarian crisis, people need access to safe water, adequate sanitation and hygiene. This can reduce the spread of water borne diseases and save lives. In the aftermath of the earthquake, and even more after the cholera outbreak was declared, the Commission and its partners have contributed to ensure access to safe water for the population, trucking safe water or building and rehabilitating water wells, like the one in the picture. ©2012 - Photo credit: EC/ECHO/ I. Coello |
Lorsqu’une crise humanitaire se produit, les populations doivent pouvoir avoir accès à l’eau potable, à des installations d'assainissement appropriées et à l’hygiène. Cela permet de réduire la propagation des maladies liées à l’eau et de sauver des vies. Après le tremblement de terre, et plus encore après l'apparition de l'épidémie de choléra, la Commission et ses partenaires ont contribué à garantir un accès à l’eau potable à la population, à acheminer l’eau potable ou à construire ou réhabiliter les puits d’eau, comme celui que l'on voit sur la photo. ©2012 - Crédit photo: CE/ECHO/ I. Coello
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report: www.gao.gov/products/GAO-14-683R
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE: Briefing on U.S. International Water-Related Assistance
Note: Amounts shown may not sum to total because of rounding. Amounts shown include about $4.3 million in reported interagency transfers and about $6.9 million in "other" funding such as staff and travel costs. USAID data include about $17 million in State funding for water-related programs. All agencies except USAID reported obligations data; USAID reported "allocations" data. According to State and USAID, USAID's financial accounting systems are not configured to easily link obligations data to congressional spending requirements, because single obligations can be used to satisfy more than one requirement. USAID therefore uses allocations data as a proxy when reporting on spending requirements to Congress. DOD data include funding reported by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and multiple combatant commands. One combatant command reported data for disaster risk reduction efforts broadly, not for water-related disaster risk reduction only; therefore, actual DOD funding for water-related assistance may be less than shown. See appendix II for more details on U.S. agency grants and contracts funding data.
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report: www.gao.gov/products/GAO-14-683R
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE: Briefing on U.S. International Water-Related Assistance
Note: USAID, State, and MCC provided assistance in 39 countries in sub-Saharan Africa: USAID in 33 countries, State in 25 countries, and MCC in 10 countries. USAID officials noted that funds for central or regional programs may reach additional countries. Various other U.S. agencies also provide assistance in 31 of these countries as well as in 1 additional country, Togo, where USAID, State, and MCC do not provide water-related assistance.