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March 22 is World Water Day and this year’s theme is Water and Food Security. But access to water and food -- that’s what water and foodsecurity means -- has proven to be insufficient. What is needed is community control over access to water and food. This is the idea of water and food sovereignty.
The farmers of Via Campesina demanded that the World Water Forum, recently held in Marseille, France, defend the rights of small-scale farmers and ordinary people to water for drinking and farming. Their solutions to the water crisis include agrarian reform, agroecology, and food sovereignty.
Using less water to grow crops is essential, as the message of UN World Water Day makes clear. A cultural shift to reject corporate agriculture and return farming to its rightful place as an activity that not only provides food but stewards and protects our environment and wellbeing is necessary for health and survival.
Hesperian’s resources offer insights and practical suggestions about how to create healthy, sustainable water and food systems.
See more at - https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:35444.7493396806/rid:0ce7c7e27d85c6690ba0df78f37aeb41
....learn about protecting community water and watersheds, building safe toilets, treating health problems due to unsafe water, and farming sustainably. ...
...basic information on toilet building as well as learning activities to help communities understand and prevent sanitation-related health problems....
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- How corrupt water policy led to bitter disputes during the settlement of the American West.
- How to reuse household water to create lush gardens.
- How residents jump-started municipal eco-projects in such diverse locales as Tijuana, Mexico City, Zimbabwe, and Arcata, California.
- How a “protest village” in Thailand and a neighborhood association in Louisiana beat dam and levee expansion with grassroots organizing.
- How to build a composting toilet and a pedal-powered washing machine.
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