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Good News California!

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Crowdsource your WASH SPOT

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Help the Southern California homeless population: Identify and report free accessible washing locations! The goal of this effort is to search out and find locations where homeless can wash their hands, face, feet and even a shower if possible. We have included a category for public drinking fountains as an indicator of a place where washing may be possibility. An international effort on this is http://wetap.wordpress.com/ This is a tutorial on how to add the washspot.crowdmap.com  to your phone. This will allow you to submit crowdsourced reports using an app on your smart phone. The website is to help identify the places where urban survivors can take a bath or wash their hands. You can also submit reports by: going online and clicking the " Submit Report " button Using a mobile phone to text a report in If you want to use the app method, then follow the steps below. Download the Ushahidi App to your smart phone from the iphone app store or the android store.  

A Christian Perspective on Sanitation

I used the previous post to create this prezi presentation about sanitation and world population growth. http://prezi.com/zodnerwxriws/a-christian-perspective-on-sanitation/

A four letter word

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Here is an interesting take on water conservation, pathogens and.....poop.  How many gallons of drinking water did you **** in today?  Created by: OnlineNursingPrograms.com The original image is here

Coachella Valley Illegal Trash Dumping. What are the health consequences?

Illegal trash dumping impacts Eastern Coachella Valley residents http://www.scpr.org/programs/madeleine-brand/2012/06/04/26799/illegal-trash-dumping-impacts-eastern-coachella-va/ via @kpcc

repost: Reusable grocery bag carried nasty norovirus, scientists say

A case study related to our reusable grocery bag study. Reusable grocery bag carried nasty norovirus, scientists say

Water under Africa: more than we realized!

Thanks to Donn Gaede for forwarding this to me. "New maps indicate that many countries currently designated as "water scarce" have substantial groundwater reserves." Here is the BBC article:  Water under africa??? Here is the article pdf: doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/2/024009 Its not available for everyone and much of it is not extractable.   The good news is: " ground water is indicated to have a residence time in the ground of 20 to 70 years."