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Agua y género: la lucha de las mujeres para conseguir agua potable segura para sus comunidades

La cuarta reflexión de las Siete Semanas para el Agua 2021 de la Red Ecuménica del Agua del CMI, es de Krystina White.* A continuación, White describe sus experiencias sobre la situación vivida en Flint, Michigan (E.E. U.U.) donde la población negra y latinoamericana se ha visto privada del derecho al agua potable, debido a la contaminación por plomo del suministro doméstico. Asimismo, describe la extraordinaria labor que han llevado adelante tres mujeres corrientes, a pesar de estar directamente afectadas por el problema; al igual que lo hizo Débora, la profetisa de la Biblia. White y sus amigas han denunciado la contaminación por plomo de las aguas de Flint a través de la iniciativa Black Millennials 4 Flint y ofrecen soluciones duraderas a las comunidades afectadas por la crisis.

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.

 

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.