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What are the challenges surrounding water in Western Canada? What are our rights to water? Does water itself have rights? Water Rites: Reimagining Water in the West documents the many ways that water flows through our lives, connecting the humans, animals, and plants that all depend on this precious and endangered resource. Essays from scholars, activists, environmentalists, and human rights advocates illuminate the diverse issues surrounding water in Alberta, including the right to access clean drinking water, the competing demands of the resource development industry and Indigenous communities, and the dwindling supply of fresh water in the face of human-caused climate change. Statements from community organizations detail the challenges facing watersheds, and the actions being taken to mitigate these problems. With a special focus on Environmental and Indigenous issues, Water Rites explores how deeply water is tied to human life. These essays are complemented by full-colour portfolios of work by contemporary painters, photographers, and installation artists who explore our relation to water. Reproductions of historical paintings, engravings and film stills demonstrate how water has shaped our country's cultural imaginary from its beginnings, proving that water is a vital resource for our lives and our imaginations.

Several hundred participants attended these sessions. The ADB Water and Poverty Initiative sessions alone attracted over 1,500 participants. The presentations and discussions in the sessions provided a dynamic picture of the contemporary debates on water-poverty relationships and numerous examples of actions to reduce poverty through water management. Many varying views were expressed, and in a few cases, strong arguments emerged over controversial issues. Overall, however, there was a strong consensus that emerged from all sessions on the core issues that water management should be a major factor in poverty reduction strategies and that this potential is not being realized in most parts of the world

Several hundred participants attended these sessions. The ADB Water and Poverty Initiative sessions alone attracted over 1,500 participants. The presentations and discussions in the sessions provided a dynamic picture of the contemporary debates on water-poverty relationships and numerous examples of actions to reduce poverty through water management. Many varying views were expressed, and in a few cases, strong arguments emerged over controversial issues. Overall, however, there was a strong consensus that emerged from all sessions on the core issues that water management should be a major factor in poverty reduction strategies and that this potential is not being realized in most parts of the world

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Concentrations of Lead and Other Inorganic Constituents in Samples of Raw Intake and Treated Drinking Water From the Municipal Water Filtration Plant and Residential Tapwater in Chicago, Illinois, and East Chicago, Indiana, July-December 2017* -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Background -- Purpose and Scope -- Methods -- Sampling Site Selection -- Sampling Methods -- Analytical Methods -- National Water Quality Laboratory -- Redox Chemistry Laboratory -- Quality Assurance/Quality Control -- Results -- Chicago and East Chicago Water Filtration Plant Sampling -- Chicago Area Tapwater Sampling -- Discussion -- EPA Guidance on Reducing Pb Exposure in Home Drinking Water -- Conversion Factors -- Data -- Supplemental Information -- References -- Chapter 2 -- Drinking Water Health Standards Comparison and Chemical Analysis of Groundwater for 72 Domestic Wells in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, 2016( -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Purpose and Scope -- Description of Study Area -- Study Methods -- Selection of Sampling Locations -- Collection and Analysis of Samples -- Graphical and Statistical Analyses -- Quality Assurance and Quality Control -- Groundwater Quality and Comparison to Drinking Water Health Standards -- Physical and Chemical Properties -- Major Ions -- Nutrients -- Bacteria -- Metals and Trace Elements -- Radionuclides -- Dissolved Methane and Other Naturally Occurring Hydrocarbon Gases -- Man-Made Organic Compounds -- Chemical Analysis and Relations among Constituents in Groundwater -- Conceptual Hydrogeochemical Model -- Relations among pH, Specific Conductance, and Constituent Concentrations -- Ionic Contributions to Conductivity and Total Dissolved Solids -- Correlations among Major and Trace Constituents in Groundwater.

This essay argues three propositions: (1) by 2025 roughly one third of the world's population will be living in countries which are water-stressed, at least by conventional criteria; (2) nevertheless, macro evidence does not portend that the world will be unable to feed its growing population at that time; (3) interstate armed conflicts over water, which were not very important in the last quarter of the twentieth century, seem unlikely to become more intense in the coming decades, especially since most countries have not utilized the enormous possibilities for saving scarce water.

Trouble is brewing between Egypt and East African countries over the Nile waters that have been its lifeline for generations. Kenya and other states in the river basin are threatening to pull out of a 1929 Treaty signed between colonial Britain--which governed most of the area--and Egypt. There has even been talk in Cairo of military retaliation against any country that violates it.