8 12 Foster learning and opportunities for education.
9 14 Improve local water supply reliability. 15 23 Enhance opportunities for equitable access to the river corridor. His call for immediate collective effort makes good sense, even if expressed with bromides like "if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem." (Apr. 16 24 Provide protective and resilient flood management. The author, former director of the Sierra Club's clean water campaign, doesn't put stock in desalinization plants or the meltwater of towed glaciers, believing that conservation is the most viable path to sustaining water supplies. Launched on 1 October 1968 by then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, the month-long campaign aimed to make Singapore the cleanest and greenest city in the region by addressing the problem of inconsiderate littering. Midkiff frets that the privatization of municipal water services will raise household bills for private profit, and faults outdated, lobby-driven farm subsidies for encouraging "water-guzzling" rice crops in California's Central Valley, which was once a desert, before the lure of underpriced water transformed it into an agricultural cornucopia. The Keep Singapore Clean campaign was one of Singapore’s first national campaigns as an independent nation. Provide clean water and sanitation: 30+ Giving to the Clean Water Fund will help bring clean water, sanitation, and hygiene to communities helping cut child deaths by more than half Monthly giving is the most effective way to help children and families who need it most. Water from the tap in Atlanta has had to be boiled to make it potable, while farmers' wells in New Mexico are tapped out. Midkiff ( The Meat You Eat ) earnestly marshals plenty of cautionary information: once-flush aquifers are being rapidly depleted, most precipitously the Ogallala, which stretches from Nebraska to the Texas panhandle, while the Colorado (in Texas) and Rio Grande rivers vanish into dry riverbeds before they reach the Gulf of Mexico. Though it offers a litany of damning facts about America's state-of-emergency water crisis, this is pretty dry reading.