Have you joined an event for World Water Day?
I’ve signed up to the Virtual Walk for Water - on March 22 - and I am going to really try to do something about my water usage.
I always smile when people talk about not washing their cars, not using their mist- air conditioners too often or not using their dishwashers more than once a day. I don’t have those things. But I am guilty of wasting water, our most precious resource. Like leaving the tap running when I brush my teeth and sometimes I wash just 4 items in my washing machine. Never again!
Plus I’m going to engage in Water Conversation. That’s not a typo, I mean conversation, talking to everyone I know, strangers on bus stops, people I come across when walking along the creek and to anyone who can’t get away from me, about water.
You would think that in a country that is 70% desert we would have a better idea of water conservation but for years we treated water as though it just fell out of the sky. Like manna. When I was a child we used to play for hours under the hose on a hot day!
This year is also the International Year of Sanitation to accelerate progress for 2.6 billion people world wide who are without proper sanitation facilities. Makes you squirm doesn’t it?
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March 21st, 2008 at 8:29 am
Thanks for the interesting information about the World Water Day. I didn’t know about it. Yes, we DO waste water quite a lot every single day, even those who actually more conscious and aware of the fact…
March 21st, 2008 at 8:45 am
It’s so easy to forget about water! I only really remember it when the bill comes
March 21st, 2008 at 8:55 am
Here in Adelaide, this is a very real issue. Currently we have about 15 months supply and no rain. A little scary
March 21st, 2008 at 9:23 am
We’ve been on Stage 3a water restrictions in Melbourne, last year we received only 40 per cent of our average rainfall. Mind you, I saw a young man gaily washing his car this morning, with the hose left on the ground and pouring into the gutter, I felt like him dobbing him in to the Water Patrol.
March 22nd, 2008 at 9:38 am
hi! thanks for the visit to my blog and the comment.
i never knew there was such a thing as World Water Day, but now that i do, i must say it’s a really great idea. i guess we take it for granted that we will always have clean water that we don’t realize there may come a time when it becomes as expensive as oil. scary thought!
March 28th, 2008 at 1:30 am
Missed world water day but tomorrow night is Energy Hour from 8pm to 9pm (Sydney time)
I’ll be in a pub at the time for a wedding so I wonder what we will do while the lights are out?
March 28th, 2008 at 1:32 am
ooops. I meant Earth Hour
March 28th, 2008 at 4:23 am
Yes Jenny, and it means I have to turn off my computer!