Fresh Air, Clean Water: Our Right to a Healthy Environment (Orca Think, 4)

Everyone depends on clean air to breathe, safe water to drink and healthy soil for growing food. But what if your drinking water is dangerous, your air is polluted and your soil is toxic?

What can you do about that? Do you have the right to demand change?

Fresh Air, Clean Water: Defending Our Right to a Healthy Environment explores the connections between our environment and our health, and why the right to live in a healthy environment should be protected as a human right. The book features profiles of kids around the world who are taking action and important environmental rights court cases. Hear the powerful stories of those fighting for change.

The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.

Megan Clendenan is an award-winning children’s author. Her books include Cities: How Humans Live Together (Children’s Book Council 2024 Librarian’s Favorite), and Fresh Air, Clean Water: Our Right to a Healthy Environment (2023 Green Earth Book Award Winner), What Do We Eat?: How Humans Find, Grow and Share Food (Children’s Book Council 2025 Teacher’s Favorite) and she has more books on the way! Megan loves speaking with readers at festivals, schools and libraries. She lives near Vancouver.

Julie McLaughlin is an award-winning illustrator of numerous children's books, including Pride Puppy, Little Cloud, Plant Attack!, Breaking News and Why We Live Where We Live, winner of the 2015 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction. Her work with various editorial, advertising and publishing clients can be seen around the world. Julie grew up on the Prairies and now resides on Vancouver Island.