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Dirty Little Secrets
With commentary from WasteWater Education 501(c)3 Board Member Catherine Flowers
February 19, 2015 at 2pm ET: Basic Introduction to wastewater treatment and microbiology
Register Here for this complimentary distance learning class.
WasteWater Education welcomes John Jackson as Guest Author
WasteWater Education welcomes Craig H. Lindell as Guest Author
Craig Lindell is a highly respected engineer and innovative thinker who consistently addresses how we need to re-think how we address sanitation issues and development both here in the US and overseas.
Lindell is a founding principal and former CEO of Aquapoint Inc. Aquapoint is focused on the design, implementation and operating of advanced wastewater treatment, including nutrient removal and reuse, for residential commercial industrial and municipal clients. It has also been an industry leader in designing distributed approaches to infrastructure.
The distributed approach enables communities to design infrastructure to reduce water, energy and nutrient foot prints, align the supply of infrastructure with demand, generate capital and create jobs and often pay for itself.
WasteWater Education 501c3 Has Reached the GuideStar Exchange Gold Participation Level as a Demonstration of Its Commitment to Transparency
WasteWater Education 501(c)3 has Reached the GuideStar Exchange Gold Participation Level as a Demonstration of Its Commitment to Transparency
WasteWater Education 501(c)3, a national water resources education and outreach organization, received the GuideStar Exchange Gold participation level, a leading symbol of transparency and accountability provided by GuideStar USA, Inc., the premier source of nonprofit information.
This level demonstrates WasteWater Education’s deep commitment to nonprofit transparency and accountability.
“We have worked hard to showcase our progress toward our mission, and our long-held belief in being transparent about our work, to our constituents,” said Board Chair Jason Menchhofer. “As a GuideStar Exchange participant, we use their platform to share a wealth of up-to-date information about our work to our supporters and GuideStar’s immense online audience of nonprofits, grantmakers, individual donors, and the media.”
In order to be awarded the GuideStar Exchange logo, WasteWater Education had to fill out every required field of our nonprofit report page on www.guidestar.org for the Gold level of participation.
“I encourage you to check out our profile on GuideStar to see what we’re all about,” added Menchhofer. “We are engaged in exciting initiatives, and we are thrilled to have another platform for communicating our advancement and progress.”
Read our 2014 Charting Impact Statement- PDF LINK here charting_impact
About the GuideStar Exchange
The GuideStar Exchange is an initiative designed to connect nonprofits with current and potential supporters. With millions of people coming to GuideStar to learn more about nonprofit organizations, the GuideStar Exchange allows nonprofits to share a wealth of up-to-date information with GuideStar’s many audiences. Becoming a GuideStar Exchange participant is free of charge. To join, organizations need to update their report pages, completing all required fields for participation. The GuideStar Exchange level logos, acknowledged as symbols of transparency in the nonprofit sector, are displayed on all Exchange participants’ nonprofit reports.
#GivingTuesday #flushedwithsuccess
Every Body Deserves A Decent Throne!
Our primary goal on #GivingTuesday is to help buy 8 Eloos, serving 2 rural communities in Sierra Leone in partnership with DeeperMissions.org
We hear a lot ABOUT what’s happening in Sierra Leone, now come hear from the people themsleves!
Our goal is simple – there’s a place in Northern Sierra Leone, a clinic in Kabala, where they would really like to have a REAL ‘comfort station’ at the beginning, middle and end of their day.
And there’s a school in the NE, at Koidu, where it’s hard to teach basic health when there isn’t a place to do their daily “business’!
We need 8 Eloos ($7,200), $7,300 to ship them, $1,500 to build each stall in the ‘throne room’ – A grand total of $26,500.
So what do you think? How about taking on a piece of this effort so we end this campaign truly #flushedwithsuccess ! You want to do something concrete to make a difference? This is it. Make A DONATION here!
Sometimes the simplest of things can mean the difference of life or death.
When you go to your warm bathroom tonight, and sit down on that nice padded seat, maybe read a book, get comfortable with having a decent throne underneath you …… we hope you’ll remember this #GivingTuesday campaign.
Follow us at : http://twubs.com/flushedwithsuccess
World Environmental Health Day – 6 session seminar September 26, 2014
Every Body Deserves A Decent Throne:
Crossing the Sanitation Divide – Past, Present and Future.
Six session seminar series provided at no charge through Google Hangouts On Air.
Session 1. 10- 10.45 am ET
https://plus.google.com/events/c5a8pagbtudisb61rk20uf4523k
Dendra Best will look at the history of sanitation in the US and how that has shaped the technology of infrastructure ever since.
Session 2. 11 – 11.45 am ET https://plus.google.com/events/c2j07kdvnstis05ijsmkidjhip0
Patrick Lucey – why traditional infrastructure is now unsustainable. His bio can be found at the aqua-tex.ca web site.
See: http://aqua-tex.ca/index.php?id=2&press=1&draw_column=1:1:2
Session 3. 11.50 am ET – 12.40 pm ET
https://plus.google.com/events/cbp6bl8rf77e3kmgbufender4ak
Patrick Lucey – successful case studies of sustainable integrated water systems from Canada and the US.
Break for Lunch
Session 4. 1.30 – 2.30 pm ET
https://plus.google.com/events/cpb2ea4j9o2cqn3500jirsqukso
The reality of Sierra Leone and Guinea – Derek Reinhard and the work of DeeperMissions.org
The theme for Environmental Health Day 2014 is inequality of access. Not only does DeeperMissions work in one of the poorest regions in west Africa, it now has to deal with the massive Ebola epidemic
Session 5. 2.40pm ET – 3.20pm ET
https://plus.google.com/events/c1s6h0ajh5obbe4kgsom5oq70i8
Patrick Lucey. A better future: how to export 21st. century knowledge not 19th century thinking.
If the problem is massive, is this the time to rethink how we provide basic sanitation and clean drinking water systems both here in the West and in developing countries? The environmental, weather and financial climate is a whole new ball game from when most of these technologies were the norm. What kind of legacy are we creating for our children or grandchildren if we keep on doing the same thing?
Session 6. 3.45pm ET – 4.30pm ET
https://plus.google.com/events/c9al5e9p3j3n5mmabovd78diksg
CollaborativeWaterSolutions.com Team – relevance to both small rural communities in CA and the US as well as Haiti, Africa and S. America.
Culture, demographics, access to support structures and expertise – all play a vital role in ensuring whatever is proposed as the ‘ideal’ solution will actually be feasible AND workable in the long run. So often planning is something that is done TO a community not WITH it.
Collaborative Water Solutions was created to build on the stellar work done by Water Environment Research Foundation where a team developed the Small Community Decision Making Tool to help local leaders determine their own best options for wastewater service.
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