#UN-Water

[waterandenergyrelief]

In a changing world that is facing multiple challenges, Water Engineering stands out as one of the main transforming tools for building a better world.

How to guide the hydro-environment community in this journey?

[handwashingday]

Clean hands are within reach.

Global Handwashing Day 2023 is themed “Clean hands are within reach”. The campaign says, “Through strong leadership and collective efforts, we can close gaps in access and practice to achieve hand hygiene for all. Everyone has a role to play to ensure clean hands are within reach.”

Find out how to take action here.

[hinamie]

took 3 tries but i think i am finally free of korra plagiarism in yuuji's water tribe design

jjk atla!au with @philosophiums

[freddieardley]

Shorelines: Devon & Jersey

Photographed by freddieardley.com

[muffinlance]

druk gets into zukos coffee supply

"Uncle."

Uncle raised his tea cup to his lips.

"Uncle, how did he get in."

Uncle took the most delicate of sips.

"Uncle I am not turning another storeroom into tea storage."

"How unfortunate to waste the space," said Uncle. "After all, it is quite hard to keep a dragon out once they have acquired the taste!"

"Uncle."

[stars-obsession-pit]

Lifeblood

Being a ghost scientist is hardly a highly acclaimed occupation. Even among those who actually know that ghosts are real, the scientists are widely regarded as whack-jobs and quacks. Idiots at best, scammers at worst.

Well that was all about to change.

While working for the Ghost Investigation Ward, she had made a world-shaking discovery.

And like any great scientist, she immediately set about ensuring it was hers alone. She wouldn’t let anyone take this away from her, and certainly not the government. She deleted all the hints of it from the organization’s databases, and quietly tendered her resignation as soon as the trail seemed clear.

For this, her name would be remembered forever.

For she had discovered the secret to eternal life.

Not just the ghastly echo of consciousness imprinted into ghosts, but real, true, life. Bodies, brought back from the most heinous injuries or even from death itself.

And it was all thanks to those disgusting ectoplasmic pseudo-creatures.

Because that was the solution. Ectoplasm. The potent, highly pure stuff, ideally sourced directly from the bodies of powerful ghosts. Without the impurities, the corruptive effects of ecto-contamination could be mostly staved off.

Now, of course, collecting those ghosts to harvest would be a challenge—especially without the government facilities she used to have access to.

But she knows what the rich are like. They’ll pay anything for an opportunity like this. Once she gets things started, she’ll have all the resources she could ever need.

And she already stole enough doses to prove their effectiveness to those first backers.

[pondslime]

What do you want from me? What have I done? I'm just a word processor, for Christ sake!

Griffin Dunne as Paul Hackett AFTER HOURS (1985) dir. Martin Scorsese

[lluvmydogs]

Sink or swim

[handwashingday]

Water, sanitation and hygiene = gender equity.

Women and girls must play a central role in designing and implementing solutions, so that services respond to their specific needs.

[trainerethan]

I wonder. Would red be a light sleeper, since on mt. silver hed need to be on guard for any wild pokemon or anything else. I already said i imagine him having a very consistent sleep/wake cycle so he usully goes to bed and wakes up without an alarm since...yknow he didnt have one on the mountain. That said deviating heavily from his routine could probably throw him off. If he didnt get enough sleep hes groggy and a bit annoyed by whatever made him lose out on his precious sleep time, whether it be wild pokemom or a particularly strong storm or whatever. Since he sleeps lightly to stay on alert, these things do wake him up and can throw him off a little for the day. Thankfully he lives on a mountain so its not like he had any plans that would be thrown off by it, just his own annoyance with his routine being foiled.

Perchance when he was on the mountain and he slept lightly for self preservation or whatever, now that he and green live together hes become a deep sleeper who could sleep through a lot bc he can finally relax and trust that he is safe and doesnt need to be watching out for any potential problems he could have as mountain man. Green is here now, and red knows he can be vulnerable and relax around her.

Green is extrmely touched by this, but also its a little annoying when they have plans and reds sleep/wake cycle made of netherite makes it difficult to wake him up before he usually would. He can but then hes groggy and doesnt want energy drinks or coffee so he takes awhile to fully wake up on his own lol.

We win some (complete trust and love for your wife and the happiness of the proof of how reliable and safe they see you as) and lose some (your beautiful wife trusts you so much he now sleeps through alarms and must be woken up by you specifically or you have to wait until his usual wake up time) im sure they figure some middle ground out after awhile but at first reds dedication to getting a full 9h of sleep is certainly annoying sometimes.

[hoarding-stories]

Hoo boy that ending,,,

They teed it up perfectly, the Coenobium is dark and silent in the depths of the fold, the expedition is anything but.

Of course the Granddaughter, who speaks at a whisper, has been fighting overstimulation every step of the way

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

UN Habitat wrote a long report on the State of Lebanese cities in 2021. On page 134, I saw something that surprised even me:

Water access standards is one of a range of determinants of slum living conditions. By definition, there are substantial differences between slum and non-slum households in terms of access to water and sanitation. The non-inclusion of slum settlements from service provision is often directly related to the legal tenure of the land in question. The UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme promotes the ‘need to enact laws and policies to dissociate the tenure status from service provision’ (WWAP, 2019:105). Palestinian camps, officially not connected to the public network, are relevant urbansited instances

I may be the first person on the planet to read page 134 of this report.

By and large, Palestinian camps in Lebanon are located in the middle of urban areas. The existing water infrastructure might not be ideal but it exists.

Lebanon decided long ago to deny Palestinian access to municipal water.

One would think that some NGO might have written about this over the past 75 years. But it is really hard to find anyone even elliptically talking about this.

Interpal says, "Palestinian refugees are forced to buy unregulated drinking water from local vendors." The World Health Organization says, "In Shatila, drilled wells within the camp provide water for drinking and other domestic purposes. These wells are managed by entrepreneurs who sell the water to residents, and distribute it as drinking water to households."

No one seems to ask why Lebanon never extended their water supply that already surrounds the camps into the camps themselves. And the people who clearly know about this don't seem to be very bothered by it. 

[al-mayriti]

WE HAVE OFFICIAL POKEMON ART OF THE PALDEAN E4 HAVING TORTILLA AND SANGRIA IN A BAR 😭😭😭😭

[blondebrainpowered]

A child drinks from a water tap in the town of San Lorenzo, constructed by USAID/Ecuador, in 2003.

Before the construction of this water system, families in the community of Calderon in the San Lorenzo municipality of Ecuador were forced to obtain their water supply from unprotected and contaminated sources, which caused illness and disease among the people. USAID’s Northern Border Development Program built this water system in 2002 and it benefits around 450 community members.

This photo won third place in a photo contest commemorating the 50th anniversary of USAID, in 2011. The water taps were installed by the USAID Northern Border Development Program in Ecuador, in conjunction with the UN's International Organization for Migration. The program also included infrastructure like roads, canals and bridges.

An audit by the USAID Inspector General concluded that the program had achieved about 90% of its planned results. The report was very recently removed from the USAID website, but can still be found on the Internet Archive.

[meetmeafftcrdark]

☽. astronomía

– Es un milagro que el cielo esté así de despejado en pleno septiembre, ¿no crees? –comentó, observando fascinada las estrellas. Los días con el otoño acercándose estaban cada vez más nublados, sin embargo, aquella noche no había ni una sola nube en el firmamento.