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      ​The guest house and space for a tennis court at "The One Bel Air"—a 105,000-square-foot mansion with a sky deck, putting green, night club, several swimming pools, a 50-seat theater, a four-lane bowling alley, and more—is shown in this aerial photo taken on September 8, 2021 in Beverly Hills, California.

      'Unsustainable Consumption' by the Rich Is Driving Urban Water Crises: Study

      "Due to stark socioeconomic inequalities, urban elites are able to overconsume water while excluding less-privileged populations from basic access," new research shows.

      Kenny Stancil
      Apr 11, 2023

      Unequal access to clean water in cities around the globe—an injustice poised to grow worse this century as the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis intensifies droughts—can be attributed in large part to "unsustainable consumption" by high-income residents, according to peer-reviewed research published Monday in Nature Sustainability.

      "Over the past two decades, more than 80 metropolitan cities across the world have faced severe water shortages due to droughts and unsustainable water use," the study says. "Future projections are even more alarming, since urban water crises are expected to escalate and most heavily affect those who are socially, economically, and politically disadvantaged."

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      'One Billion Rising' in Global Action Against Gender Violence

      People taking to the streets to march, dance, and celebrate unity as they demand justice for women across the world

      Jacob Chamberlain
      Feb 14, 2014

      One billion women, men, and youth from 200 countries joined forces Friday for the second annual "One Billion Rising for Justice" day of action, rising up to demand an end to violence against women and girls across the world.

      "Women are putting their bodies at the site where vulnerabilities intersect," Kimberle Crenshaw, co-founder of the African American Policy Forum, recently toldDemocracy Now! in anticipation of the event. "By that I mean where vulnerability to gender violence, vulnerability to economic exploitation, vulnerability to the drug war -- all these things come together to create unique risks, many times risks that poor women, marginalized women, women of color face."

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