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A Thought:

COA Admin March 18, 2012 2 Comments

By Robin Owings How much water (among other resources) did it take to print the millions of flyers strewn through the WWF halls? I wish we had photo-documented this area of flyer stands throughout the week. They started out empty, then began to overfow mid-week (when this photo was taken). Try imagining the way the hallway looked at the end of the forum. The photo shows only 3 of roughly 30...

An Additional Youth Statement on Water

COA Admin March 16, 2012 2 Comments

An Additional Youth Statement on Water March 16, 2012 Youth are the future decision makers of the world. We must be forward thinkers because we will inherit a planet shaped by the actions of today. We are innovative by nature, and we call upon those involved in water issues to listen to and engage with our perspective. We are youth, but we do not speak for all youth, and we issue this document...

Mid-week Stress Relief

COA Admin March 15, 2012 0 Comments

After a long Tuesday sitting in very tense debate sessions regarding private sector partnerships, Wednesday was the opposite. Our hostel knows a local guide who takes tourists into the nearby mountains to hike and talk about the local ecology of the area, and luckily Lisa found out about him and got him to give us a tour. The area is in the last stages of becoming Calanques National Park, and...

Thoughts on grammar at the World Water Forum

COA Admin March 15, 2012 2 Comments

Ken Cline I have developed an adjective-noun problem. I wrote in an earlier entry that “words matter.” I was thinking about that even more today. It wasn’t even because we have been discussing the wording of proposed statements late into the night or that I have been spending time with Rachel (for whom English grammar is a contact sport). No, I was just sitting in a presentation...

Outlining the Panels

COA Admin March 15, 2012 1 Comment

- Robin Owings As I sit in long meetings on water privatization, scarcity, and ethics, I have taken to documenting panelists (government officials, NGO heads, citizen leaders) with blind contour drawings. I look directly at the subjects and record them using a continuous line. Each line forms a caricature, reflecting the elements of those figures such as slouching shoulders, facial expressions,...