Treehugger’s Leonora Oppenheim recently accompanied Ecover and WaterAid on a trip to northern Ethiopia to discover the extent of WaterAid’s work (with funding from Ecover) in helped to bring clean water to many rural people in that area.    Leonora describes the trip as an incredible journey, and the photos taken along the way demonstrate just how important this work is in the lives of the Ethiopian people.  (See the photo’s from the Ecover and WaterAid trip here.)

This should be a lesson to us about just how incredibly important it is for us to conserve clean water supplies and consider the needs of the developing world as we go about our daily lives of abundance in the West.  After all, we are stuck in the middle of what is the worst economic situation in decades, and yet we still have food to eat and clean water flowing from our taps in the comfort of our own homes.  These people are struggling to survive on a much more basic level, and as the planet heats up they are going to find it harder and harder to survive at all.

To celebrate this partnership between Ecover and WaterAid, they are launching a documentary entitled ‘Working with Water’ at the London International Film Festival. Go along and watch on Saturday 4th April at 5.20pm at the British Museum.