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Celebrate National Park Week down in the Bayou 16 Apr 2011 | 03:32 pm
National Park Week begins on Saturday April 16, 2011 and there’s no better place to celebrate than the famous swamps and bayou’s of Louisiana. The Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve (...
Pres. Bill Clinton Honored at Riverkeeper Festival 15 Apr 2011 | 03:54 pm
President Bill Clinton was honored at last night’s Annual Fisherman Ball hosted by the Riverkeeper Organization in New York. Riverkeeper advocates for clean water in the Hudson River that supplies New...
Herman Melville and Whaling 14 Apr 2011 | 03:54 pm
In the days of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, to go whaling was a suitable profession, a chance at adventure, even a source of literary inspiration. For Ishmael, the main character in Moby Dick, whalin...
Follow WaterWideWeb on Facebook! 13 Apr 2011 | 03:59 pm
WaterWideWeb has a goal of welcoming 1,000 new followers on Facebook by May 2011. Currently, we have 550 Facebook followers. Think we can make our goal? Social media is a tool to keep in touch with l...
BCBInc’s 7 Day Charity Challenge in Full Throttle 9 Apr 2011 | 03:31 pm
Building Community Bridges Inc., (BCB) has 7 days to raise a grand total of $5,000 to support their operations that bring clean water to rural villages in Togo and West Africa. According to the CIA W...
EPA Enviro-Justice Award for Sustainable Puerto Rico Plan 8 Apr 2011 | 01:53 pm
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) granted an environmental justice award to the ENLACE Cano Martin Pena Project, an endeavor that is working on a more sustainable plan for the Cano Martin Pena...
Reader Survey: Time to Hear From You! 7 Apr 2011 | 03:17 pm
Over the past several months, WaterWideWeb has published articles on compelling water management issues around the world. Our readers are important to us and we want to hear from you. What are your t...
Did Justice Prevail? Inequity in Fines Paid for Oil Spill 6 Apr 2011 | 03:13 am
On March 31, 2011, Koo’s Shipping Company S.A. (Koo’s), a Taiwanese corporation, pleaded guilty to falsely testifying about illegal oil discharge from one of its vessels into the Pago Pago Harbor of A...
Water Celebrity of the Week: Alicia Keys 5 Apr 2011 | 09:21 am
Singer Alicia Keys is WaterWideWeb’s Water Celebrity of the Week. In her music video Superwoman, water is a powerful metaphor for the unity and empowerment of women. Within the first minute of Superw...
A Long Time Coming: Coastal Access for Bolivia 5 Apr 2011 | 07:35 am
The War of the Pacific between Bolivia and Peru in the late 19th century led to major geopolitical, diplomatic, and economic restructuring that still negatively affects the region today. In the e...
