Women and water rights: Rivers of regeneration
source: http://womenandwater.net/
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This is also part of a series I plan to put together for the Water Is Life group regarding Women and Water. Women play a pivotal role in the economic, environmental, social, and cultural aspects of water. In many areas of the world families would not have water were it not for the backbreaking labor of women, many who walk six to nine hours daily to collect water that is polluted and scarce at times with the threat of physical harm to themselves. It is a hardship that effects their ability to have adequate education and sanitation. As with agriculture, women play a leading role in providing but do not have the rights of ownership, nor do they share equally in the fruits of their labor due to cultural taboos and traditions. This is not only a crisis of freshwater scarcity but of freedom and environmental democracy.
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Excerpt:
Women and Water Rights: Rivers of Regeneration
February 23 to March 25, 2010
Katherine E. Nash Gallery
Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Art has the responsibility to help society deal with its hidden conflicts and contradictions…to imagine what could exist and give it shape…open up a space for critical thinking.
- Herbert MarcuseThe Women and Water Rights: Rivers of Regeneration (WWR) project addresses the precarious state of the world’s fresh water supply and the global need for gender mainstreaming in water management. Through an art exhibition and related programs, WWR underscores the message that water access is a universal human right.
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We are facing a global water crisis:* 18% of the world’s population lack access to safe drinking water, and 42% lack access to basic sanitation. More than 2.2 million people die each year from diseases associated with these conditions. As water scarcity grows, so will these numbers. By 2025, it is estimated that two thirds of the world’s population will live in areas facing moderate to severe water stress.See http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/factsheet.html
WWR calls attention to the United Nation’s International Decade for Action, the Water for Life! agenda, and the UN Millennium Development Goals, the achievement of which hinge on integrated management of water resources. A target of the MDG’s is to halve by 2015 those peoples without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
See: http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/pdf/pb_water_gender_upd.pdf
As women play a central role in water provision and management, women must be central in planning for the future. A focus of WWR is to examine how the inclusion of women in the management of local, regional, and global water resources. would improve the social, economic and environmental results. WWR will emphasize how the arts both reflect and alter societal attitudes leading to cultural and economic change.
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