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The Possibility of Clean Lakes and Rivers | Dr. Joshua Greene | TEDxAjijic

Clean water. Sounds simple, yet the contamination of the world's water supply is only getting worse. Who's responsibility is it? The government? Abandoned wastewater treatment plants actually concentrate wastewater, creating toxic discharges more dangerous than before the wastewater treatment plants were built. We cannot wait for the government to solve our problems. Civic action can make the difference. In our local community, where our lakes and rivers are so critical to our entire ecosystem and supply all of our water, we must treat our local communities like laboratories, teaching our local children, farmers, and leaders about simple filtration systems, share from their own experiences, and take ownership of the issues while taking small steps to make lasting change. Local communities will feel empowered, take action, and perhaps come up with local solutions to solve the problems that governments and large enterprises might never have the capacity to solve. Joshua Greene is the co-director and founder of Rios Vivos, a project which seeks innovation in the water and sanitation sector in the Upper River Santiago Watershed. The project began as an outcome of investigations that Dr. Greene participated in, trying to understand the cause and effect of the contamination devastating the area. Greene has a Masters in Global Policy with a specialization in water, water finance and development from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. His doctorate comes the University of Geneva where he co-directed a research team looking at the socio-economic impacts of water access in Mexico. Today he works at Mexico’s premier anthropological research institute CIESAS where he coordinates and directs various levels of interventions in the regional water space. The project Rios Vivos is focused on bringing educational and financial resources into communities where simple solutions can be applied and built upon This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx