STUDY SESSION

THEME

WATER FOR ALL

March 11-13, 2004

 

HostGhost Ranch Conference Center in Abiquiu, New Mexico www.ghostranch.org

 

SPEAKERS:

Ryan Case, Water Stewards Network www.waterstewards.org

Elizabeth Peredo - Mujer, Identidad y Trabajo, Fundación Solón www.funsolon.org

Jose Luis Montes, Consultoria Tecnica Comunitaria (CONTEC)

 

PANEL:

Southwest Network for Environmental & Economic Justice www.sneej.org

Richard Moore, German Agoyo, Tomas Garduno

 

San Ildefonso Pueblo

Gilbert Sanchez, Kathy Sanchez

 

Southwest Organizing Project www.swop.net

Tomasita Gonzalez, Pajarito Mesa

 

La Jicarita News

Kay Mathews, www.lajicarita.org

 

 

COLLECTION OF RELEVANT ARTICLES FOR BACKGROUND READING

 

Book Review by Jane Breckenridge:

When Water, A Fundamental Heritage, Becomes a Private Commodity for Sale

 

Washington Post 02-14-04 by Mark Zeitoun

Avoiding a Mideast Water War

 

washingtonpost.com

Water Privatization Draws Indian' Ire-Villagers Resist New Approach to Sacred Resource

by Rama Lakshmi;Special to The Washington Post 12/29/03;pgA14

 

Heifer International: www.heifer.org

WORLD ARK Fall 2003: Troubled Waters - Lack of Freshwater Threatens Globe

by Sandra Postel, Director of the Global Water Policy Project, Amherst, Mass.

 

United Methodist Women: www.gbgm-umc.org

Response Magazine: Sustaining the Earth

For a Cup of CLEAN WATER by Brenda L. Webber and Dana E. Jones

 

YES! A Journal - Winter 2004: Whose Water?  www.yesmagazine.org

Turning Scarcity into Abundance by Vandana Shiva

The Big Promise of the Small by Carolyn McConnell

A Sewer Becomes a Water Park by Karen Charman

 

National Catholic Rural Life Conference www.ncrlc.com

Catholic Rural Life Spring 2003:

    The Folly of Water Privatization by Wenonah Hauter