New Year, new paradigm? Yes!!! — if it’s up to the participants in the 2012 Global Week at the Castilleja, an independent school in Palo Alto, California, an entity in the United States of America.
Their week, from January 3 to 6, examines the theme of ‘Fresh Water: Commodity or Human Right? In Search of a New Paradigm’. One of their dozen and a half speakers is Alissa Sears, of Safe Water International, a founding force of 300in6.
The speaker inputs, findings, debates and media presentations of the week could make a fine contribution to global knowledge on safe water, and how to prioritise it. Our own input from afar, if you allow: it’s a human right, no doubt about that, which sometimes becomes more accessible, more effectively, more sustainably when some commodity rules are followed.