New Well Drilled in Ethiopia

Found another interesting website/charity today, Water Partners International. It's generally the same facts, but it's in a concise and specific area to locate them. I cannot verify any of the information, but that's always the problem. I'm not sure where these citations are coming from. So take some information with a grain of salt (like every 15 sec a child dies from water related causes). But we're still facing a serious problem of water scarcity and my hesitance to accept information as fact without reliable sources in no way degrades the issue at hand; water scarcity, sanitation, & quality is a huge problem, especially for 2009 for many countries.


Charity: Water drilled the first new well in Ethiopia from fund raising from Twestival (Twitter + festival), raising $250,000. You can watch a few videos and find more information on Charity: Water's website, over here.

Circle of Blue had a couple of interesting articles, from indigenous traditions to water wars in Asia to megadroughts.


Speaking about Charity: Water, their awareness bracelets came today. Pretty cool lookin', I have to say. I have a bunch of them, so I'll be handing them out to those that want one.

Proceeding

Well, painting has commenced. Despite having a week off, my schedule was suddenly filled with errands and other important activities. However, I have completed a Kell Bailoch & 2 Nomads. I'm going with a more cameo appearance. Jeremy from my gaming group gave me a couple of hints that I'm going to work forward.

One of the worries - Magnus in dark blue (his traitor colors), appears to have been subsided, with fellow gamers considering how awesome it is that I'm using a morph of dark blue in the color schemes.

Anyway, I should have pics up tonight. I'm hoping to get done with the Traitor and some infantry this week, barring my end of the week business trip to Chicago.

To keep you abreast of water issues,

Drought in India means less tea!