Somebody bring me some water

[cyrano]

My friend Tahnan found himself in an unpleasant situation recently when Boston experienced some water troubles. (It looks like parts of the city are going to have to boil their water for a while.) He was going to write a post complaining about what a PitA it was, until he suddenly got some perspective. And then, even better, he decided to share that perspective.
He's planning to donate to a water-oriented charity, a dollar for every day that Boston has a water problem.
Ten dollars, according to the website, will give somebody in a third world country clean water for ten years. That spurred me into action. I'm planning to match his donation, and I encourage you to join in however you can. It sounds like a little goes a long way here, and I think I can manage a little.

Comments

[xleste.livejournal.com]

That is AWESOME! Read the post, Tahnan and you both rock. The world's water issues are so challenging, it's wonderful to see action spurred from an inconvenience like this.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

As a (former) public health journalist, one of the saddest things I ever learned was that 5,000 children die every day for lack of clean drinking water.

It seems that we (the wealthier nations) are starting to realize this tragedy and do something about it.

Now all we have to do is stop the victimization of women and children.

[aberdeen.livejournal.com]

Huh. Well. As someone who is told to boil water for several weeks at a time, several times a year...

I wonder how much it would cost the water charities to make sure we have clean water.

(I just own a snazzy distiller, and run the water through that before drinking or giving it to cats, even when they're not actually telling us not to drink the water.)

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Speaking of living on the frozen edge of civilisation, did you get your birthday present?

[aberdeen.livejournal.com]

I DID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cari was supposed to tell you because I NEVER SEE YOU anymore.

Miss you!

And Thank you!