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World Water Day in Zambia |
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World Water Day has been observed on 22 March since 1993 when the United Nations General Assembly declared 22 March as World Day for Water. This day was first formally proposed in Agenda 21 of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Observance began in 1993 and has grown significantly ever since for the general public to show support, it is encouraged for the public to not use their taps throughout the whole day.
The UN and its member nations devote this day to implementing UN recommendations and promoting concrete activities within their countries regarding the world's water resources. Each year, one of various UN agencies involved in water issues takes the lead in promoting and coordinating international activities for World Water Day. Since its inception in 2003, UN-Water has been responsible for selecting the theme, messages and lead UN agency for the World Day for Water. In addition to the UN member states, a number of NGOs promoting clean water and sustainable aquatic habitats have used World Day for Water as a time to focus public attention on the critical water issues of our era. Every three years since 1997, for instance, the World Water Council has drawn thousands to participate in its World Water Forum during the week of World Day for Water. Participating agencies and NGOs have highlighted issues such as a billion people being without access to safe water for drinking and the role of gender in family access to safe water. UNICEF Zambia's signature programme, Unite4Climate Zambia has trained over 800 climate ambassadors across the Zambia. The Climate ambassador collaborated with me to do various activities to commemorate World day for Water which included tree planting, a radio presentation and visitations to communities that don't have access to safe drinking water to sensitise about water day and to our surprise no one knows the value of water than people who don't have it, so we took it upon ourselves to document some of their stories and to complete our work we will pay the local member of parliament a visit to brief him of the situation with the locals in his constituency.
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Great Article! Are you in any of the pictures?
Posted 28-03-2014 18:14
Thank you for the article and beautiful picture. The people seem like a great team! Are you there in the picture too? I want to find you :)
Posted 25-03-2014 14:19