#navajo water project

[fandomtrumpshate]

FTH 2023 Supported Organization: DigDeep/Navajo Water Project

Indigenous communities in the United States often lack access to basic infrastructural resources that are taken for granted in most other parts of the country. Among the Navajo communities in Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico, one-third of households do not have running water in their homes, and have no access to sewage systems. Without sinks or toilets, these families are forced to haul water in on a daily basis. In addition to the time and labor this requires of them, they end up paying an average of sixty-seven times more for this water than they would if it were piped in.

The Navajo Water Project is a community-led project that brings clean hot and cold running water into American homes. Over the past six years, the Navajo Water Project has brought clean, running water to more than 300 Navajo households. They have also lit up remote homes with solar power, delivered 13 million of gallons of water, created jobs, and sustained thousands of families throughout the pandemic. They also invest in research, advocacy, and workforce development to close the Water Gap once and for all.

The Navajo Water Project is organized by DigDeep, which began its water justice work in 2013 building water systems in rural Cameroon and South Sudan. DigDeep has since shifted to working entirely in the US and expanded to include the Appalachian Water Project, which brings hot and cold running water to homes in West Virginia and Kentucky.

You can support Navajo Water Project and DigDeep as a creator in the 2023 FTH auction (or as a bidder, when the time comes to donate for the auctions you’ve won.) 

Signups are open!

#fth 2023 #fanworks charity auction #supported organization #digdeep #navajo water project #digdeep/navajo water project

[girlactionfigure]

Israeli, Native American partnership brings clean water to Navajo Nation

An estimated 10,000 families across Navajo Nation lack access to running water, and Israeli company Watergen aims to change this.Navajo Nation water

#Israel #Aid #Navajo Nation #Water Project

[nanistar]

a whoopsie... this is the end of the chapter, and im taking a 2 week break! stay tuned for guest artists in the meantime as I prep for chapter 4.

Read on TUMBLR | TAPAS DISCORD (13+) | PATREON | NAVAJO WATER PROJECT

#warrior cats #warriors oc #warriors comic #warriors oc comic #sbc comic #i had a big scene about them climbing thru the rocks and ducking into a little offshoot tunnel to escape a mudslide but it didn't line up- #-and i had an actual deadline for getting the chapter done this time instead of just a self-imposed one

[decolonize-the-left]

Tldr: the USA said "yeah you have water rights....good luck finding water to have rights to though✌️"

You can help by making sure you're doing what you can to make sure they have their own water sources.

Digdeep is currently the group providing that most (from some searching around and news articles.)

#the us is such a fuckin bitchfr #also like #correct me if im wrong #i was trying to find something navajo led and this seemed to be closest to it #navajo #solidarity #climate change

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

It's Indigenous Peoples' Day in the USA! Which makes this a great time to learn about indigenous history, culture and art!

Look up which tribes have lived in your area (if you're in the USA), and see if they're hosting community events, ceremonies, or workshops open to the public. Check out art and books by indigenous creators, or support indigenous-owned businesses!

Or you could start with a broader work like Native Historians Write Back: Decolonizing American History or watch Reel Injun, a documentary by Cree director Neil Diamond! More ideas here.

Learn about the difference between cultural appreciation and appropriation. My personal rule of thumb is that learning, connecting with people in a culture, and engaging with something that's freely offered are good, but taking symbols or stories out of context usually isn't. Think about the people, not just the aesthetics.

Spread awareness or donate to causes like the Navajo Water Project, the American Indian College Fund, the NDN Collective, or specific projects in your area.

Feel free to add more!

#jlrrt speaks #indigenous peoples day #love you all <3

[zutarawedding-zine]

The Zutara Wedding Zine is happy to announce that it has raised $1,423.60 USD for the Navajo Water Project!

Thank you for your support, we wouldn’t have been able to raise this money for our chosen charity without it.

Please find receipt of our donation in the following screenshots, we made the payment in five instalments due to Paypal limits:

And with that, the Zutara Wedding Zine project is complete. Stay safe and we hope you enjoy the ATLA live action series airing later this week if you’re tuning in. 

#zutara #zuko #katara #zuko x katara #atla

[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

-fae

#land back #clean water is a right

[myulalie]

Worthy of Love

Erica sets Stiles up on a blind date but the mysterious beau never shows up. Butthurt about it and definitely insecure about himself; Stiles absolutely refuses to talk to the infamous Derek Hale when they meet by chance at a party some time later. They keep running into each other afterwards, and it slowly becomes clear that Derek never meant to hurt Stiles' feelings. He simply needs to deal with his own issues, namely: his older sister moving out of their family home to start a life with her partner, the suspicious Lydia Martin. Against all odds, they might get to know each other after all and maybe, figure out whether they’re meant to be together or too messed up to find their special someone (read on AO3).

Chapters: 1/7

Words: 33k

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warning: None

Fandom: Teen Wolf

Relationship: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski

Characters: Derek Hale, Stiles Stilinski, Hale Family, Lydia Martin, Erica Reyes, Kira Yukimura, Isaac Lahey

Additional tags: Blind Dates, Meet-Ugly, Misunderstandings, Werewolf Reveal, Strangers to Friends to Lovers, Getting Together, First Kiss, (Mutual) Pining, Healthy Communication, Scent-Marking, Cuddling, Blowjob, Dirty Talking, Consensual Choking, Alternative Universe - No Hale Fire, Alternative Universe - Canon Divergence, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Stiles is Insecure, Derek Needs a Hug, Trust Issues, Past Theo/Stiles, Past Kate/Derek, Mention of Past Abuse

Notes: This work is part of Fandom Trumps Hate 2023 and specifically a gift to Kali in thanks for your donation to a nonprofit: DigDeep/The Navajo Water Project.

Complimentary playlist: Spotify

#sterek #teen wolf #stiles stilinski #derek hale #fandom trumps hate #fth2023 #autopromo #fanfic #by pearl

[dollie-so-divine]

helloooo!

the US government is yet again harming Native American's water supply.

I believe us as a community can do our best to stop this, if you can, please please donate to the Navajo water project!

i am donating the money that i do have to donate, please if you can, do the same!

and share this please! it is very very vital that the Native American community gets as much help as possible. they are the original peoples and the LEAST we can do is give them clean water.

I am also going to gather as many links as possible and pin them to my profile.

we as a community can do what the government will not, we are stronger together

#law of assumption #manifest #manifesting #manifestation #law of manifestation #law of attraction #loa #loa blog #neville goddard #subliminals #the void state #void state #void success #loa tumblr #loa success #edward art #important

[fandomtrumpshate]

FTH 2023 Wrap-Up

Boy has it been a year, guys.

This seemed like the year when anything that could go wrong did, from covid to family emergencies to work obligations to software bugs. We're so grateful to you all for your patience and for coming back year after year to remind us why we do this.

Historically, non-election years have usually seen slumps in both our number of auctions and our donation totals. But this year? You guys blew us away yet again.

We had just as many auctions as last year, which is amazing. But even beyond that: our donation total —just 10% lower than last year's massive record— is 150% higher than our third best year, making it a very close second.

So are you ready for this year's grand total?

This year

thanks to all of you

FTH raised...

$47,361.75!

Which brings our seven-year total to

$239,507.86

Thank you so much to our 616 creators who offered 800+ auctions in over 400 different fandoms and subfandoms, and to everyone who bid! Also a special shoutout to our record 17 crafters who raised over $2500 of this - three times as much as any of our previous craft bazaars!

Your returning mods (@porcupine-girl, @captainbunnicula, @tiltedsyllogism, @anyawen, and @renjunbabygirl) would also like to give our heartfelt thanks to this year's two additions to the mod team, @trickybonmot (who has been a mod before but was returning after several-year absence) and @a-still-small-vox (who is brand new to this whole thing). Given everything that went down this year, the auction literally could not have happened without them. They've been ridiculously awesome.

Creators, be sure you contact your bidders by April 1, and bidders, on your end please respond to their communication by April 15!

Once the fanwork is posted, let us know via our form (can you believe six creators have already finished??) and if you're posting it on AO3 be sure to add it to the Fandom Trumps Hate 2023 collection. If you're writing a fic for FTH and need help from our Regiment of Fan Laborers, email us!

As always, we hope that for at least some people, your involvement in FTH will lead to continued action throughout the year. Sign up for our organizations' email lists, check out their volunteer opportunities, and help boost their signals on social media!

And if you'd like to run your own fanworks auction for a good cause, we can help get you started! Contact us at fandomtrumpshate at gmail.com and we can send you our auction playbook, as well as answer any questions you have about our process.

Your mods are going to be going into post-auction hibernation mode (or, for most of us, post-auction deal-with-all-this-other-stuff mode) for a little while. So if you email us, don't panic if we don't get back to you immediately! We will start actively monitoring the inbox again by April 15 at the latest.

Here is a quick snapshot of the donations to individual organizations - see below the cut for all of the totals!

We hope to see you all again next year!

Amounts raised for each of our individual orgs:

TLDEF $8,594.5 (18.15%) DigDeep/Navajo Water Project $7,037 (14.86%) Rainbow Railroad $5,970 (12.61%) Sherlock’s Homes Foundation $3,169.5 (6.69%) Life After Hate $3,069.75 (6.48%) Never Again Action $3,062.75 (6.46%) Citizens’ Climate Education $2,235 (4.72%) Xerces $2,103 (4.44%) Razom $2,101 (4.43%) Violence Policy Center $1327 (2.80%) NNtEDV $1,157.75 (2.44%) The Appeal $935 (1.97%) Other organizations (that aren’t abortion funds) $1,151 (2.43%)

All abortion funds $5,468.50 (11.54%) Indigenous Women Rising $2,073 (4.43%) other abortion funds $1,184.50 (2.50%) Abortion Fund of Ohio $963 (2.03%) KY Health Justice Network $634 (1.34%) New Orleans Abortion Fund $349 (.74%) Buckle Bunnies $240 (.51%)

#fth 2023 #donation totals

[royharperzine]

💘FINAL DONATION

Our final donation is $612 to the Navajo Water Project 🥳

Thank you to our contributors and mod team for all their hard work, and thank you all for supporting this project; we couldn't have done it without you!

(This marks the official close of the zine - social accounts and emails will no longer be regularly monitored and may be deleted in the future.)

#roy harper zine

[thenerdyindividual]

Get a Custom Merlin Fic and Support Progressive Charities!

I am once again participating in Fandom Trumps Hate! It is a fan charity auction in which fan creators offer a potential thank you gift, bidders bid on that thank you gift, and the highest bid donates that amount to one of the supported orgs like Life After Hate, The Navajo Water Project, Razom, or a multitude of abortion clinics. Once that donation is made and proof is sent to the mods of the event, your creator makes you a custom gift.

I’ve participated for the last four or five years and I am offering another Merlin fic this year. I’m a multishipper by heart so while I adore merthur, I’m also down to take a shot at rarer pairs like Merlin/Lancelot, Merlin/Gwaine, Arthur/Gwaine, Arthur/Lancelot, and Morgana/Gwen. I also love a good poly ship like Merlin/Arthur/Lancelot and Merlin/Arthur/Gwaine. I’m also willing to take a whack at gen fic. I love a good au; canon divergence, canon era with alternate fantasy elements, modern with fantasy, etc. You can find more detail about what I’m offering here on my offering post.

Please feel free to contact me via DMs or the askbox if you want more detail! You don’t even need to have a fic concept in mind beforehand because I have a list of ideas I’m looking for an excuse to write.

Last year I wrote two fics for this event.

Hail Mighty Emrys for @camelotsheart

And A Curse Not Easily Broken for @anarchycox

Go forth and browse the offers! Good luck and happy bidding!

#bbc merlin #merlin #merlin fics #bbc merlin fic #merthur #merthur fanfic #bbc merthur #merthur fanfics #arwaine #arwaine fic #mercelot #the adventures of merlin #merlin tv

[nanistar]

a quick page to see how all three Clans are doing...

i am getting surgery this Friday. next week's pages are already done and queued to post, and I will be taking two weeks off for my end of chapter break. I have two guest artists to fill the following tuesdays :)

Read on TUMBLR | TAPAS DISCORD (13+) | PATREON | DONATE to the NAVAJO WATER PROJECT

#warrior cats #warriors #warriors oc #warriors comic #warriors oc comic #sbc comic #kind of a clash of vibes between the two pages but you know

[ghoulslayer]

"DAMNED TO AN ETERNITY OF TORTURE AND SUFFERING,

THE WAILING AND THE GNASHING OF TEETH

I HAVE CREATED HELL...

...And now I can no longer unmake it."

DANTE | IT/ITS | 20

INTERSEXY, SYS HOST,

NECROTIC POST-HUMAN, CERTIFIED FAGGOT . . .

16+ this blog gets gorey !

READ MY RENTRY FOR MORE INFO, OR DONT.

resources for palestine - navajo water project - donations 🍉

realities of colonisation - more donations - donations for congo

art tag is #angel art - rambles tag is #angel talk - wips are #angel wip

[berniesrevolution]

PEOPLE’S POLICY PROJECT

by Kendall Dix

The Flint, Michigan, water crisis has dramatically illustrated poor people’s lack of access to clean drinking water in the United States. But beyond lead contamination, there are more ways this country denies people that basic human right. The inability to pay water bills has become a significant problem for poor people.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic and accom­pany­ing economic downturn, an estimated 1 out of every 20 households, or about 15 million people, had their water turned off at some point during the year because of non­payment.1 In New Orleans, more than 75 percent of low-income residents have water bills that industry analysts say are unaffordable.2 During the pandemic, an es­timated 9,052 people died as a result of water shut-offs.3

Like all issues related to poverty, the problem of water affordability disproportionately harms Black people, making this a racial justice issue.4 The amount of household income spent on water is more than twice as high in majority Black cities as majority white cities.5

Most water for bathing, cooking, and drinking in the United States is provided by utilities, about 80 percent of which are publicly owned.6 Water utilities are funded by a combination of government money, user fees, municipal bonds, and private loans.7 Though household fees are often thought to discourage overuse, data show that demand for water is relatively fixed, and raising prices produces little reduction in usage.8 Furthermore, residential water use accounts for just 8.2 percent of overall water usage in the United States.9

The most effective and equitable solution to the affordability problem is to eliminate residential fees and simply fund water utilities entirely with progressive taxation. If governments are interested in reducing overall water consumption, there are a variety of other options such as physical infrastructure that limits the amount of water that flows through fixtures, water recycling, or limiting the largest users of water, which are farms and industrial facilities.

Two related, but distinct, problems characterize the term “water affordability”:

Poverty. 

Many people in the United States have low amounts of income and no or negative wealth. This makes it difficult for them to afford their household expenses, including rent, food, and water utility bills.10 In addition to their inability to pay, poor people who have bad credit scores are often seen as risks to utilities, which force them to pay high deposits or sometimes even deny them water service altogether.11

(“Older Housing In The Black Community On Chicago's West Side.” U.S. National Archives / EPA.  “Old Cars Serve as Water-Break on Navajo Reservation.” U.S. National Archives / EPA.)

Public Disinvestment. 

Despite overall water consumption decreasing,12 people’s water bills are getting more expensive, in part because of decades of federal dis­invest­ment from public infra­structure. Federal spending on water has dropped steadily since the 1980s.13 Utilities’ costs have risen, in part because of climate change,14 and those costs are passed on to the public through increasing rates.15 Private utilities, which serve about 20 percent of the population, exist to make a profit and have higher water rates than public utilities.16 As federal spending on water has fallen, private water utilities have been on the rise. From 2010 through 2020, just 12 large, for-profit water companies acquired 353 water utilities at a total cost of about $5.8 billion.17

Water rates function as consumption taxes that fund infrastructure projects, much like gasoline taxes help fund highway maintenance and construction.18 In theory, these taxes can be used to influence consumer behavior to decrease usage. In practice, households largely cannot and do not respond to increased water rates by reducing consumption.19 Replacing water bills with more progressive sources of funding would increase access and improve the income distribution without causing overuse.

Eliminating water bills not only ensures universal access for those with housing, it also lowers utilities’ costs by reducing the need for billing and collections staff. Fees and rates alone cannot maintain our water system; only about 17 percent of utilities say they can maintain existing service without additional funding sources.20

(“Public Playground on the Charles River, near Soldiers Field Road.” U.S. National Archives / EPA.)

Water utility costs can be broken down into two broad categories:

At present, capital expenses are often covered by loans taken out by utilities and repaid by the fees collected from water users. The main federal funding mechanism for drinking water is the State Revolving Loan Fund (SRLF), which provides low-interest loans to utilities. The SRLF provides useful financing for utilities across the country, but many smaller utilities struggle to pay those loans, and some states struggle to provide the required matching funds.

Water infrastructure did not always depend so heavily on loans. In the 1970s and early 1980s, the federal government provided significant grant money to water utilities. There are still a number of federal grant programs, including Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN), Public Water System Supervision (PWSS), Tribal Public Water System Supervision, and Training and Technical Assistance for Small Systems.21

Congress should revive this approach and replace water infrastructure loans with grants. This would ensure that all utilities can afford to build out and maintain necessary infrastructure as well as eliminate the water rates that are used to directly or indirectly finance capital expenses.

Water utilities’ day-to-day expenses are currently distributed down to users through water bills. Replacing these charges with more progressive taxes would allow for the total elimination of residential water bills and result in a more equal distribution of income and consumption. Any level of government could do this. Municipalities could use property taxes to eliminate user charges, states could use state income or sales taxes, and the federal government could use the federal income tax. But if equality is the goal, it is worth noting that the federal tax system is currently much more progressive than state tax systems.22

This is not a new idea. Ireland does not charge residents for water and an effort to introduce charges in 2014 led to such immense backlash that the government scrapped them two years later.23 Some US cities have already begun experimenting with progressive water billing. For example, Philadelphia offers income-based water rates for those whose income is below 150 percent of the federal poverty line.24 Though this is good because it caps the amount any one household pays for its water bill, only households that apply are enrolled in the program. There are poor households that would qualify but are not receiving the benefit because they haven’t filled out the paperwork. Eliminating rates and fees altogether would be more effective.

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#politics #the left #peoples policy project #water #economic inequality #poverty #infrastructure #progressive #progressive movement #social democracy #democratic socialism #socialism #capitalism #economics #long post #long reads

[zutarawedding-zine]

📢 Hello #Zutara fandom! We are closing the shop for the Zutara Wedding Zine on Monday 18th December, 11:59 EST!

🚨 Until then, you can use code Zutara15 for 15% off your entire order in our closing sale! If there's any leftover merch you've been eyeing, grab it before Monday 18th December!

🛒 Here's a link to our shop: https://zutarawedding.bigcartel.com/

📨 After we close the store, we'll prepare to send your items in January so it doesn't get lost in the mail system during the holiday period.

❤️ After all the items have been shipped we'll be sending the charity money we've raised to The Navajo Water Project, so watch this space if you'd like updates about that too.

#zutara #zuko #katara #atla #zine #zines