CAAC Water Forum

Press Release: For Immediate Release, April 15, 2004

Contact: Dan Bacher, 916-487-4905, email: danielbacher [at] hotmail.com


Forum on Safe and Affordable Water Set For June 7

The Central America Action Committee of Sacramento will present a water rights forum, “ Safe and Affordable Water, at Home and Abroad,” on Monday June 7, 7-9 p.m. The event will take place at the Newman Center, 5900 Newman Court, off Carlson Avenue north of CSUS.

Water is increasingly becoming a hot topic in Sacramento, the U.S., Central America and throughout the world. Poor and indigenous communities are particularly hard hit by water diversions and the privatization of water resources by huge global corporations.

The event will feature an overview of global water privatization - including right here in Sacramento - by Nancy Price of the Alliance for Democracy. Price recently returned from an international gathering in Costa Rica on how to organize opposition to US-pushed "free trade" (including water!) agreements in theWestern Hemisphere.

Don Coan of the Nicaragua sister city group, Friends of San Juan de Oriente, will present the San Juan-produced ceramic water filters, “filtrones,” as a low cost method of producing potable water in Central America. He will also, as a representative of Solar Cookers International, explain solar water pasteurization.

A representative of the Hoopa Valley Tribe will speak about the long struggle of the tribe to restore water and fish to the Trinity River. Carole Harper will make a presentation on El Porvenir’s varied local water projects for Nicaraguan communities.

This promises to be a unique, entertaining and highly informative event, the first of its kind in Sacramento. The event is free, but donations are appreciated. For more information, call the Central America Action Committee, 916-457-5018 or 916-739-0860