Green Sanctuary Corner: April

April Theme: Water

This month our resource of focus is water.

Polluted and toxic water getting into our waterways and drinking water systems is causing illness for humans, and poisoning marine life and the surrounding environment.  In addition, water plays a central role in the adaptation to climate change.  Water is already a scarce resource that is likely to be the cause of power struggles and justice issues for the foreseeable future.

Some areas you may want to view or read: 

• Young Adult Book on the Flint Water Crisis: Poisoned Water
• Ted Radio Hour: Our relationship with water: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ted-radio-hour/id523121474?i=1000506956339
• Netflix: There’s Something in the Water
• Netflix: Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis

Some ideas re: water from the UUA:

• https://www.uua.org/worship/holidays/water-communion
• http://www.uuintergenerational.org/script_menu.htm

Some sites for further research

• https://socialjusticeresourcecenter.org/cause/water-access/
• https://www.sharedjustice.org/most-recent/2019/6/12/clean-water-and-the-environmental-justice-movement
• https://www.un.org/en/sections/issues-depth/water/
• https://www.un.org/en/events/waterdecade/

Recent events

• https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/us/texas-water-crisis-winter-storm.html
• https://www.fayobserver.com/story/news/2021/03/14/lumberton-nc-active-energy-sued-selc-violations-clean-water-act-toxins-lumber-river/4645181001/
• https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2021/03/14/world-water-day-2021-cleaner-rivers-for-massachusetts/