Montreal Gazette: Fight poverty - add water

Fight poverty - add water

Looking up at the full moon, it's hard to imagine two more different realities: Billionaire Quebec impresario/space tourist Guy Laliberté is up there somewhere - possibly wearing a red clown's nose - floating in zero gravity on a poetic mission about water conservation, while people down here are gathered in a dirt field, waiting for actors to take to a makeshift stage.

The play, also focused on the need for clean drinking water, will be a rare break for people of San Luis, who work hard just to get by. (A third of Nicaraguans live on less than $2 a day). [read rest of article]