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	<title>RainCatcher &#187; Get Involved</title>
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		<title>&#8220;What if &#8220;. . . dialogue</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 17:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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 Water for Everyone™  . . . What if dialogue between two students<br />
by  Jack Rose <br />
 <br />
What if the only water we had to drink came out of the L.A. River?<br />
 Or Malibu Creek? or any creek?<br />
What if we lived In Africa and had to walk for hours everyday just to bring water from muddy streams back to our house?<br />
 What if we got typhoid or cholera. . . or dysentery?<br ...]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong> Water for Everyone™ </strong> . . . <em>What if</em> <em>dialogue between two students</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">by  <em>Jack Rose</em><em> </em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.raincatcher.org/uploaded_images/P1020379-739502.JPG"><strong> </strong></a></p>
<p>What if the only water we had to drink came out of the L.A. River?</p>
<p><em> Or Malibu Creek? or any creek?</em></p>
<p>What if we lived In Africa and had to walk for hours everyday just to bring water from muddy streams back to our house?</p>
<p><em> What if we got typhoid or cholera. . . or dysentery?</em></p>
<p>What if 5 million of us died this year from drinking bad water?</p>
<p><em> Every year!</em></p>
<p>What if someone decided this was unacceptable?</p>
<p><em> What if we started to catch the rain that fell on our school house?</em></p>
<p>And channeled it through gutters.</p>
<p><em> And stored it in giant water tanks?</em><a href="http://www.raincatcher.org/uploaded_images/P1010971-737800.jpg"></a></p>
<p>And then during recess, instead of walking a mile or two down the canyon to get a drink from that funky stream. . .</p>
<p><em> We just opened the tap on the filter bucket inside our classroom and took a big gulp of the best water we&#8217;ve ever tasted.</em></p>
<p>What if all the thirsty kids around the world could do this?</p>
<p><em> It isnt rocket science, is it?</em></p>
<p>But NASA wants billions of dollars to look for water on Mars.</p>
<p><em> What if the $20 million spent on one military tank was used to buy 20 thousand water tanks?</em></p>
<p>Then all the thirsty kids around the world would have fresh rainwater to drink instead of the contaminated stuff.</p>
<p><em> What if we could make that happen?</em></p>
<p>We can. My friends and I are helping the RainCatcher project right now in Africa.</p>
<p><em> How?</em></p>
<p>Its easy. The people there really want clean water to drink, but they don&#8217;t have the right rain catching tools.</p>
<p><em> Water tanks rain gutters  filters. Its just a matter of hardware.</em></p>
<p>Yeah so the RainCatcher project is launching the Global Hardware Store.</p>
<p>We are helping to buy and deliver the supplies, and getting the RainCatchers set up, and before you know it, an entire village is drinking the good stuff.</p>
<p>What if everyone could do this?</p>
<p><em> Were working on that.</em></p>
<p>The goal of RainCatcher is Water for Everyone</p>
<p><em> Ill drink to that.</em>
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		<title>Transformation</title>
		<link>http://www.raincatcher.org/2007/01/transformation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Get Involved]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[car]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[filters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miata]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Transforming a Sports Car in California into Rainwater Storage Tanks in Kenya<br />
To fund the upcoming RainCatcher project outlined in the following story I am putting my Mazda Miata up for auction. For information and bid submitting call 415-939-9396 or email jack@raincatcher.org.<br />
The idea is to demonstrate the principle of transformation by causing a resource in one part of the world to be turned into resources in another part of the world.<br />
1993 Miata &#8211; 70,000 miles &#8211; Fully restored ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Transforming a Sports Car in California into Rainwater Storage Tanks in Kenya</h3>
<p>To fund the upcoming RainCatcher project outlined in the following story I am putting my Mazda Miata up for auction. For information and bid submitting call 415-939-9396 or email jack@raincatcher.org.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.raincatcher.org/uploaded_images/miata-727437.JPG"><img class="alignright" src="http://www.raincatcher.org/uploaded_images/miata-700796.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a>The idea is to demonstrate the principle of transformation by causing a resource in one part of the world to be turned into resources in another part of the world.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>1993 Miata</strong> &#8211; 70,000 miles &#8211; Fully restored &#8211; new paint, top, tires, struts, stereo w/ headrest speakers and iPod, new car cover.<br />
For information and bid submittal email jack@raincatcher.org.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.raincatcher.org/uploaded_images/truckload-718466.jpg"><img class="alignright" src="http://www.raincatcher.org/uploaded_images/truckload-700503.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>If you are moved by this story there are three ways to participate:</p>
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<li>Place a bid for the Miata</li>
<li>Purchase water storage tanks and filters</li>
<li>Offer a resource for auctioning for the next project</li>
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<p>Thank you for taking the time to consider becoming involved<br />
in the RainCatcher Transformation story. &#8212; Jack Rose
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