Menstruation matters: Menstrual Hygiene Day to raise awareness, reduce stigma

What’s a common factor in advancing education, ensuring health, strengthening the economy, protecting the environment and realizing human rights? Menstruation. Well, menstrual hygiene. May 28 is the first global Menstrual Hygiene Day, a day in which more than 90 international and local organizations will come together to break the silence around menstruation and raise awareness Continue reading


Pure Water Trickles Down

Every week, a five-gallon jug of clean water makes its way to Trojes, Honduras. The bulky blue container sloshes its way down the mountain as the rickety four-by-four carrying it bumps over rocks and skids in thick, deep mud. It isn’t an easy journey, but it’s a welcome, life-saving gift from a young man to Continue reading


What’s Your Watermark?

Jenneth Fleckenstein wants you to make your watermark. This could mean donating to clean water nonprofits, reducing bottled water use or decreasing water consumption through more efficient behaviors. Fleckenstein, who manages marketing for Clear Water Filtration (CWF) and is a class II water operator, was appointed to the Pure Water for the World Board of Continue reading