{"id":700,"date":"2009-03-27T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=700"},"modified":"2009-03-27T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T18:00:07","slug":"ethical-water-stewardship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2009\/03\/27\/ethical-water-stewardship\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethical water stewardship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2009\/03\/unsafe-water.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-703 img-fluid\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px\" title=\"unsafe-water\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2009\/03\/unsafe-water.jpg\" alt=\"unsafe-water\" width=\"262\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2009\/03\/unsafe-water.jpg 347w, https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2009\/03\/unsafe-water-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2009\/03\/unsafe-water-300x344.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">The international <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwaterweek.org\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Water Week<\/a> meeting has attempted to raise awareness in developed countries of the growing water sanitation crisis in developing nations. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/karl-hofmann\/making-ripples-this-world_b_179265.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huffington Post<\/a>, more than 3 million people are killed each year from water-related diseases, and 98 percent of water-related deaths occur in the developing world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">A large part of the world\u2019s water crisis is the belief that as individuals, there\u2019s not much we can do. Wednesday\u2019s Huffington Post article by Karl Hoffman outlines some simple things you can do online to help provide sanitized water to the world\u2019s poor, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php?#\/group.php?gid=57408964481&amp;ref=ts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">joining a Facebook group<\/a> to signing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepetitionsite.com\/1\/worldH20day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">petition to President Obama<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Huff Post points out that it\u2019s a disease that\u2019s easy to ignore, since you can\u2019t \u201ccatch\u201d a water-related disease. Bioethicist Peter Singer, author of the upcoming book \u201cThe Life You Can Save,\u201d made the point on <a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.publicradio.org\/\/display\/web\/2009\/03\/23\/pm_ethics_of_giving\/?refid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u2019s Marketplace this week<\/a> that even in a time of recession, it\u2019s unethical not to give to the poor, sick and dying:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cYou\u2019re walking across a park, and you see a small child fall in a pond. The child might drown in the pond if you don\u2019t rescue the child because nobody else is around. So of course you jump in. And you jump in even if you\u2019re wearing your most expensive shoes, and you know they will get ruined. If that\u2019s just something we will automatically take for granted as the right thing to do, then at the very least you should give up the equivalent of the cost of a pair of expensive shoes to save a child\u2019s life. And I don\u2019t think it makes any difference if the child is there in front of you, or the child is somewhere in Africa or India.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"color: #888888\">Photo credit: UNICEF.\u00a0 Huff Post story tip from <a href=\"http:\/\/bloggasm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Simon Owens.<\/a><\/span><br>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The international World Water Week meeting has attempted to raise awareness in developed countries of the growing water sanitation crisis in developing nations. According to the Huffington Post, more than 3 million people are killed each year from water-related diseases, and 98 percent of water-related deaths occur in the developing world. A large part of the world\u2019s water crisis is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,48],"tags":[190,191,192,22,193],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-ecology-and-society","tag-bioethics","tag-huffington-post","tag-sanitation","tag-water","tag-world-water-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}