FEATURES WILL INCLUDE:

+ hands-on tools to calculate and improve individual water footprints and habits.

+ advocacy through partnership with various organizations.

+ cultivating community involvement.

+ dynamic video library.

+ water conservation challenges

  ...AND MUCH  MORE

 

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 CONTACT US AT: info@waterpressures.org. 

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Water Pressures is a partnership between Artistic Circles —a Chicago-based  collaborative multi-media organization and Archeworks—an alternative design school that uses multi-disciplinary teamwork to create design solutions for social and environmental issues.

 

 

 

Individual Americans outpace the world in daily water usage, with an average rate of 120 to 160 gallons—nearly twice that of Europeans. In stark contrast, Indian women hope to obtain 25 gallons of water per day for their entire family’s consumption, which often requires carrying heavy vessels for miles on foot.

Currently, 4 out of every ten people in the world are without access to freshwater. Americans are no exception. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, twenty-one of our own fifty states currently suffer from drought, eleven of them categorized as severe. Furthermore, the United Nations reported in 2002 that with rising populations and contamination, 2.7 billion people globally will face severe water shortages by 2025.

To address these critical water issues, Chicago-based alternative design school—Archeworks will collaborate with documentary filmmaker and activist, Dr. Ann Feldman of Artistic Circles, to create a Web portal that invites visitors from around the globe to explore water scarcity up close and personal.

This portal will work to mobilize people to become a part of the solution, be instrumental in water conservation and take an active part in global water issues by inspiring real change in habits and beliefs.

As waterpressures.org moves forward in development and outreach, we hope to help change the way the world thinks about our most precious resource—one individual at a time.

The Great Lakes hold 20% of the Earth’s freshwater and 95% of the freshwater in the U.S.A.  Less than 1% is renewable.