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Natasha Horsfield is End Water Poverty's Campaigns and Communications intern. Here she tells us all about her thoughts on the World Walks for Water and Sanitation and the Sanitation, and Water for All High Level Meeting which followed. When I first began working on the World Walks for Water ...
Video summary of the World Water Day 2012 Ceremony in Rome, featuring FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva, UN-Water Chair and WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud and FAO Ambassador Anggun. There are 7 billion people to feed on the planet today and another 2 billion are expected to join by 2050. Statistics say that each of us drinks from 2 to 4 litres 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 litres of water while 1 kilo of wheat ’drinks up’ 1,500 litres. 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:
World Water Day - March 22nd 2011 - Official Site
In 2011, Earth Group donations helped WFP provide nearly 200,000 meals to children in school. It is The Earth Group’s mandate to give 100% of our net profits from the sale of our water, coffee & tea products, to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to support their global fight against hunger through school meal programmes . ‘Earth Group’s support could not have come at a better time for children in Kenya.
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Latest Tweet Moms in Africa spend countless hours everyday to bring home water for their families–water that isn't safe. Stop the cycle this Mother's Daycharity: water
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On this page we provide campaign materials to help create a buzz about World Water Day. Check this space often because we will keep producing fun stuff until March. Soon you will also find information material, to learn more about clean, safe water. The success of World Water Day depends on you . Please, tell your friends and colleagues about these banners and buttons to help us spread the word about the World Water Day website. And if you’re using these items, let us know.
