On world water day, everything is water and with the hashtag #TodoEsAgua on Twitter, it will highlight its role in the life of the planet
On world water day, everything is water since there have been campaigns that have been given the task of raising awareness about taking care of it.
The Aquae Foundation joins the World Water Day campaign under the slogan "Everything is water" with an offer of content and activities around five work areas: culture, knowledge, dissemination and sustainability.
This foundation will appeal to everyone’s participation next Tuesday, March 22, with the hashtag #todoesagua on Twitter to highlight the essential role of water in the life of the planet.
The initiative begins today with a web page dedicated to World Water Day and with the opening of the second edition of the “PhotoAquae” Award dedicated to photographs of this natural resource, which this year has three categories: “PhotoAquae”, “PhotoAquae Instagram ”And“ PhotoAquae audience award ”.
Anyone in the world will be able to send their snapshots from March 7 through the website www.fundacionaquae.org or Instagram @fundacionaquae.
The winners will be known during the first half of April 2016 and, as in the previous edition, a creative digital book will be published with a selection of the best images.
In addition to the launch of games on water footprint, carbon footprint and climate change, there will be an Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis or an Aquae Scholarship for the study of one of the masters on water management.
The Aquae Chair in Water Economics will also dedicate a day to this element and will present a monograph in collaboration with the magazine “Granta”.
World Water Day is framed this year under the United Nations motto "Water and Employment".
If we want water in sufficient quantity and quality, we must take care of our rivers and aquifers and rationalize consumption ", recalled through a statement the spokesman for Greenpeace, Julio Barea, who insisted that it is necessary to dedicate a part of the water flow that circulates through the channels "at ecological flows, which allow us to preserve the aquatic ecosystems on which we will later depend" for human supply.
This environmental organization denounces that the policy of "unlimited supply" has led Spain "to be the country with the most reservoirs ‘per capita’ in the world, some 1,300, despite which we continue to have supply problems."
Roberto González, from SEO / Birdlife, has pointed out in another note that, to this day, “the full application of the Water Framework Directive, key for management in accordance with the 21st century, continues to be delayed,” when “there are still many threats facing our aquatic ecosystems "and in his opinion there is not enough political will to" resolve conflicts and end the most important threats
González is one of the specialized technicians in the “Wings over water” campaign promoted by this NGO that, for seven years, has been fighting to “return life and water to the damaged Spanish aquatic ecosystems”.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has also joined these demands, accusing the Government of not having "a clear roadmap to reverse" a situation in which "more than 60% of rivers, aquifers and wetlands are in poor condition ”according to the analysis of this organization on the current Hydrological Plans.
The person in charge of the Water and Agriculture Program of WWF Spain, Eva Hernández, has indicated that “hydrological planning cannot perpetuate the old model of water, because the abuse of the resource will not only have consequences on our natural heritage, but also on the economic And social".
Other entities have taken the opportunity to organize initiatives more oriented to the festive celebration of the day, such as the case of the Aquae Foundation that has promoted activities on social networks, with videos of youtubers or about the presence of water on Mars, as well as an interview in his website with the creator of the ‘water footprint’ concept, Professor Arjen Hoekstra. EFEverde