- Access to clean, reliable water sources has been called the defining crisis of the 21st century, with more than a billion people who currently lack a reliable drinking water supply.
- While the United States has some of the world’s best water supplies, water restrictions, water quality problems, and conflicts over water rights is on the rise.
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About: Water scarcity is a growing problem throughout the U.S. and abroad, and it is crucial that individuals and communities make efforts to conserve and protect this precious resource. H2O conserve is a web-based project that offers tools and knowledge that enable individuals to make water conservation part of their everyday lives. H2O Conserve is a program of ICCR, GRACE, Food & Water Watch, and the Johns Hopkins University Center for a Livable Future:
- Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility: ICCR is a membership organization of over 275 Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish institutional investors, including pension funds, endowments, hospital corporations and religious communities, whose collective assets exceed $110 billion. It has been a leader of the corporate responsibility movement for over 35 years. ICCR members use their investment clout to engage corporate management on social and environmental issues such as global warming, genetically modified foods, water, and environmental justice.
- GRACE: GRACE is a non-profit environmental organization that promotes sustainable solutions for American’s food, energy and water systems.
- Food & Water Watch: Food & Water Watch works with grassroots organizations and other allies around the world to stop the corporate control of our food and water, and is committed to creating an economically and environmentally viable future.
- The Johns Hopkin’s Center for a Livable Future: The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future is an interdisciplinary academic center, whose mission is to: Promote research and to develop and communicate information about the complex interrelationships among diet, food production, environment and human health; to advance an ecological perspective in reducing threats to the health of the public; and to promote policies that protect health, the global environment and the ability to sustain life for future generations.