Jessica Biel Works with Live Earth and Dow Chemical to Promote Clean Water

Jessica Biel announced last week she will be continuing her water activism with a partnership with Live Earth's Run For Water campaign. She will be joining Pete Wentz and Alexandra Cousteau (daughter of Jacques, the undersea explorer) to promote a series of 6K runs that symbolize the average distance woman must walk for water in the developing world.

The runs and related events will take place all over the globe, including Buenos Aires,  Cape Town, Cape Town, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Mexico City, New York, Rio de Janeiro and Singapore. The event Sponsor? Dow Chemical, who's most notorious environmental blunder involved the contamination of the water supply in Bhopal, India. The 1984 incident killed 15,000 people and is still unresolved today. So, Dow Chemical must naturally be met with skepticism when sponsoring clean water events.

Alexandra Cousteau is no stranger to ironic charity events. As we wrote about in April, Cousteau embarked on 'Expedition: Blue Planet' sponsored by Coca Cola owned Dasani to clean up trash. Jessica has been part of many water charity campaigns. Hopefully she knows is this one may involve a bit of greenwashing for Dow.