Amy Hart

Millennium Development Goals – WATER and the MDGS

Cropped image of a child drinking water from a faucetIn WATER and the MDGs, Filmmaker/Photographer Amy Hart puts access to clean water at the center of every MDG. She begins, “Approximately 71% of the earth’s surface is covered with water, but only 3% of it is fresh water – of that precious 3%, 2% is frozen in polar ice caps, leaving just 1% to satisfy all the needs of 6 billion people around the globe. Sadly, we have not yet assured that everyone has their most basic needs met. Currently, nearly 1 billion people do not have access to clean drinking water, and more than 2 billion lack adequate sanitation – which causes the unnecessary deaths of more than 4,000 people every day, mostly children under the age of five.”

Amy Hart, posted on September 3rd, 2009
Agriculture, Articles, Health, Millennium Development Goals, Water

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Panorama of the East Coast

This Jan. 29 panorama of much of the East Coast, photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station, provides a look generally northeastward: Philadelphia-New York City-Boston corridor (bottom-center); western Lake Ontario shoreline with Toronto (left edge); Montreal (near center). An optical illusion in the photo makes the atmospheric limb and light activity from Aurora Borealis appear "intertwined." Image Credit: NASA