A Volunteer's Sobering Account of Water Conditions in Honduras
June 6, 2008
By The Denver Post
Earlier this spring, water issues were clearly in evidence from a casual glance through Colorado papers.
There was the tainted water supply in Alamosa which occasioned a cleansing of the entire system, ongoing debate over whether to build a new reservoir to serve expected population growth along the Front Range, and, nationally, the finding of traces of prescription drugs in the water of municipalities across the country.
My water issues education took a quantum leap forward, however, when I spent a week in rural Honduras under the auspices of the Denver-based nonprofit Water for People, the international arm of the American Water Works Association.
Read this editorial by the Denver Post's Harold Lamport.
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