International World Water Day

International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.

Each year, World Water Day highlights a specific aspect of freshwater.

Statistics say that each of us drinks from 2 to 4 liters of water every day, however most of the water we ‘drink’ is embedded in the food we eat: producing 1 kilo of beef for example consumes 15,000 liters of water while 1 kilo of wheat ’drinks up’ 1,500 liters.           

When a billion people in the world already live in chronic hunger and water resources are under pressure we cannot pretend the problem is ‘elsewhere’. Coping with population growth and ensuring access to nutritious food to everyone call for a series of actions we can all help with:

-          follow a healthier, sustainable diet;

-          consume less water-intensive products;

-          reduce the scandalous food wastage: 30% of the food produced worldwide is never eaten and the water used to produce it is definitively lost!

-          produce more food, of better quality, with less water.

At all steps of the supply chain, from producers to consumers, actions can be taken to save water and ensure food for all.

Today’s English Speaking Club session at Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk supported the World Water day by a  dynamic discussionof water problems faced by the city of Dnipropetrovsk and the country ingeneral.

The discussion was illustrated by several videos on the topic – about the water cycle, the water re-cycling, about water crisis in the world and the ways to reduce it, etc.

The popular activities for language training included - the description of the Water decade logo and translation of quotes about water.

At the beginning of the session all the newcomers introduced themselves to the Club members and were welcomed to the community.

All members of ESC had opportunity to get to know book, gift of Fulbright Program scholarship recipient  Linda B. Gray:
World Atlas of the Oceans : with the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) published by the Canadian Hydrographic Service / comp. Dr. Manfred Leier. - New York : Firefly Books, 2001. - 264 p.  

Session was a success!

The number of participants – 24 persons.
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