U.S.-based NGO Water for People is helping lead the charge in this area with the development of a new system called FLOW (Field Level Operations Watch).
Climate scientists can also find kinship with Dr. Herbert Needleman, who identified a link between lead contamination and impaired childhood brain developmentin the 1970s.
Fast forward to this year when I met with Claire Charamnac, the 23-year-old cofounder of Women LEAD, a leadership development organization for young women in Kathmandu, Nepal.