Here is the last two weeks’ roundup of stories related to women and water from around the web. Have a story? Send it in! Having a list of stories helps to consolidate information and track media coverage of women and water issues.
- A friend sent over this link to Politco’s coverage and video of Erin Brockovich’s documentary Last Call at the Oasis. The documentary discusses water pollution and the rise of cancer rates in the U.S.
- Farah Mohamed of G(irls)20 covered the importance of women’s leadership and involvement in management and governance for meeting sustainable development goals on the Huffington Post.
- From Water Well Journal, universities’ Engineers Without Borders chapters are addressing water access and alleviating women’s water burdens.
- Water.org has made gender and water issues into a campaign for Mother’s Day.
- Maria Otero, Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights at the State Department, delivered a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center on May 9th about water security and intelligence (and mentioned women and girls too!).
- Gemma Bulos, Director of the Global Women’s Water Initiative, wrote about the women and water crisis and economic opportunities for the Huffington Post. (Thanks to @GemmeBelle for sending her post!)
- The International Center for Tropical Agriculture announced a new partnership on gender and climate change. (thanks to @NexusPlatform for sending the link!)
About Caroline
Caroline D’Angelo is the Pulitzer Center's social media editor. She recently obtained her Master of Environmental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. She worked for the Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL) at the Wharton School (UPenn) doing research and communications. Caroline was awarded the Society of Women Environmental Professionals’ 2011-2012 scholarship in recognition of her environmental work. She was also awarded University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts and Sciences' prestigious Dean's Scholar Award in 2012 at a ceremony with keynote speaker of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen. She received a B.A. from the University of Virginia in 2007, with a thesis on environmental ethics. She interned for The Nature Conservancy in data management and research, building a global database of river health taking into account deforestation, dams and pollution. She also interned at Friends of the Earth, where she advocated for better policy design for ethanol, and created an online and print media communications campaign. At Penn, Caroline has received two grants from the Provost’s Office to run university-wide environmental events and co-founded (with Dakota Dobyns) an academic initiative to publish a journal on global women and water issues which will be published in April 2012 (wh2ojournal.com). She also represented Penn, Philadelphia Global Water Initiative and IGEL on a trip to Sri Lanka and India. She is a Reporter in Residence for Oikos International has covered the World Resources Forum 2011 in Davos, Switzerland; Oikos/United Nations Programme for Responsible Investment Young Scholars Finance Academy in Gais, Switzerland in 2012; and the World Water Forum 2012 in Marseille, France. She is also active in the outdoors and is a former wilderness guide, and is an avid kayaker and backpacker. She loves to travel and has gone to five continents.
