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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?