Water Rights and Wrongs
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Publication Title | Water Rights and Wrongs - A Young people's Summary of the HDR 2006 "Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis" |
Publication Type | Supplement to the HDR 2006
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Author(s) | Peace Child International
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Publication Date | 2007
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Summary
- "Youth Foreword"
“…they put it in a plastic bag and throwit in the street? That’s unbelievable!” A chorus of incredulity rises from the six young people around the table.
“No! I tell you, it’s true!” A voice cuts across the disbelief. “What else can people do? There are no pipes. There are no toilets. Where else do you go?” Relaxing in to her seat as her point sinks in, Patricia surveys the faces the room. “Really, we have no idea how lucky we are.”
Condensing the 2006 Human Development Report into 32 youth-focused pages takes a lot of brainstorming, research, writing, and story telling. It’s the second evening of the editorial meeting and young writers, artists, and editors from around the world are discussing the finer points of the water and sanitation crisis. The particulars of “flying toilets” in Kibera, Kenya launch the editors into an excited discussion of the various merits of well-digging, latrine-building, and drip irrigation.
The Human Development Report (HDR) is one of the bestknown and widely read United Nations publications. The 2006 report tackles one of the most challenging and most ignored issues facing the global human family: the availability of clean water and adequate sanitation. Ensuring safe water and sanitation worldwide would save the lives of 1.8 million children each year, and would grant dignity to the 2.6 billion people who live without sanitation.
The HDR is a fascinating document, full of facts, figures, and first-hand accounts from the front lines of the water and sanitation crisis all around the world. It is also 400 pages long and delves into complex and convoluted government policy issues, so it’s not exactly a must-read for the youth of today. This is why the UNDP invited the young people of Peace Child International’s world network to create an illustrated summary of the report specifically targeted at youth.
Around the table, the discussion has turned to submissions. There are over 500. Neat stacks of essays, poems, drawings and photographs are strewn across the table in minutes. A hum of page-flipping and excited murmurs settles over the room as the young editors read and share what the world’s youth think about water scarcity. The result is the magazine you are reading now...
Andrea, Anika, Ariel, Blaire, Connot, Patricia, Ben
