Celebrate National Park Week down in the Bayou

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Celebrate National Park Week down in the Bayou

No Comments 16 April 2011

National Park Week begins on Saturday April 16, 2011 and there’s no better place to celebrate than the famous swamps and bayou’s of Louisiana. The Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve (JLNP) in Louisiana is home to the Barataria Preserve (BP). The BP is 23, 000 acres of protected wetlands, marshes and swamps that connects [...]

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Pres. Bill Clinton Honored at Riverkeeper Festival

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Pres. Bill Clinton Honored at Riverkeeper Festival

No Comments 15 April 2011

President Bill Clinton was honored at last night’s Annual Fisherman Ball hosted by the Riverkeeper Organization in New York. Riverkeeper advocates for clean water in the Hudson River that supplies New York City with clean drinking water. President Clinton wasn’t the only notable attendee at the Annual Fisherman Ball. The Clinton Climate Initiative has worked to [...]

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Herman Melville and Whaling

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Herman Melville and Whaling

2 Comments 14 April 2011

In the days of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, to go whaling was a suitable profession, a chance at adventure, even a source of literary inspiration. For Ishmael, the main character in Moby Dick, whaling was a indeed a noble and necessary profession. And the great leviathan, or the whale, was pursued closely and hunted carefully. Now, the [...]

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Follow WaterWideWeb on Facebook!

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Follow WaterWideWeb on Facebook!

No Comments 13 April 2011

WaterWideWeb has a goal of welcoming 1,000 new followers on Facebook by May 2011. Currently, we have 550 Facebook followers. Think we can make our goal? Social media is a tool to keep in touch with loved ones, establish connections with like-minded individuals, and a network to disseminate information. WaterWideWeb uses social media outlets such as Facebook, [...]

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BCBInc’s 7 Day Charity Challenge in Full Throttle

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BCBInc’s 7 Day Charity Challenge in Full Throttle

1 Comment 09 April 2011

Building Community Bridges Inc., (BCB) has 7 days to raise a grand total of $5,000 to support their operations that bring clean water to rural villages in Togo and West Africa. According to the CIA World Factbook, bacterial diarrhea is a very high risk of death to citizens of Togo. Lack of clean drinking water, hygiene [...]

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EPA Enviro-Justice Award for Sustainable Puerto Rico Plan

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EPA Enviro-Justice Award for Sustainable Puerto Rico Plan

No Comments 08 April 2011

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) granted an environmental justice award to the ENLACE Cano Martin Pena Project, an endeavor that is working on a more sustainable plan for the Cano Martin Pena in Puerto Rico. According to a press release by the EPA, “ENLACE has established and implemented a land use and comprehensive development plan that [...]

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Reader Survey: Time to Hear From You!

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Reader Survey: Time to Hear From You!

No Comments 07 April 2011

Over the past several months, WaterWideWeb has published articles on compelling water management issues around the world. Our readers are important to us and we want to hear from you. What are your thoughts on the progress of WaterWideWeb? Are there particular topics that you would like us to cover in greater depth? First, take a look [...]

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Did Justice Prevail? Inequity in Fines Paid for Oil Spill

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Did Justice Prevail? Inequity in Fines Paid for Oil Spill

1 Comment 05 April 2011

On March 31, 2011, Koo’s Shipping Company S.A. (Koo’s), a Taiwanese corporation, pleaded guilty to falsely testifying about illegal oil discharge from one of its vessels into the Pago Pago Harbor of American Somoa. Aboard the vessel were frozen fish and fish products. After a full investigation by the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Environmental [...]

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Water Celebrity of the Week: Alicia Keys

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Water Celebrity of the Week: Alicia Keys

2 Comments 04 April 2011

Singer Alicia Keys is WaterWideWeb’s Water Celebrity of the Week. In her music video Superwoman, water is a powerful metaphor for the unity and empowerment of women. Within the first minute of Superwoman, Keys is adorned in traditional garb walking across the Saharan desert to fetch water at a well. On her head rests a basin [...]

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Using Flickr to Save the World

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Using Flickr to Save the World

No Comments 01 April 2011

Have you checked out what’s going on WaterWideWeb’s Flickr page? Talented photographers and artists from around the world are sharing their great pictures of water with us! Travel all seven seas, cruise the Mediterranean, and back again right from your computer, simply by clicking on our Flickr page. At WaterWideWeb, we’re using social media tools to raise [...]

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