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Seven Weeks for Water 2021, week 4: "Gendered water: women fight for safe drinking water in their communities", by Krystina White

The 4th reflection of the Seven Weeks for Water 2021 of the WCC Ecumenical Water Network is written by Krystina White.* In the following reflection, she narrates her experience of how people of colour are denied their right to clean water because of lead poisoning of tap water in Flint, Michigan (USA). She further demonstrates how ordinary women, though at the receiving end, can do extraordinary work, just like Deborah, the prophetess in the Bible.  White and her friends challenged the lead contamination of Flint’s waters through the Black Millennials 4 Flint and offered lasting solutions to communities facing the crisis.

 

Der regenbogenfarbige Pilgerweg zu Wassergerechtigkeit in Nordamerika

Die 1. Reflexion der Sieben Wochen im Zeichen des Wassers 2021 des Ökumenischen Wassernetzwerks (ÖWN) schrieb Michele Roberts*. In der folgenden Reflexion, die sich auf mehrere Fälle von grossen Wasserverschmutzungen in verschiedenen Städten der USA stützt, kommt sie zum Schluss, dass der mangelnde Zugang zu sauberem Wasser in den USA das Ergebnis von systembedingtem Rassismus ist.

Seven Weeks for Water 2021, week 1: "The rainbow color of the pilgrimage of water justice in North America", by Michele Roberts

The 1st reflection of the Seven Weeks for Water 2021 of the WCC Ecumenical Water Network is written by Michele Roberts*, from the Environmental Justice Health Alliance. In this reflection, the author, based on several instances of large scale water contamination in many cities in the USA, comes to a conclusion that lack of access to clean water in USA is a result of systemic racism.