Download - World water day introduction by green drinks
Celebrating at Low Carbon Science and Technology Museum, in Hangzhou on 23 March 2013
• Monthly meetings 每月一会• Networking among environmental professionals
or those interested in the environment• 全球 578 城市有 Green Drinks• Speakers welcome 欢迎来讲座
3 月 22 日 – 世界水日
• Same day 每年这天 • Focus attention on the
importance of freshwater关注淡水
• United Nations General Assembly designated 22 March 1993 as the first World Water Day.
咸水 淡水
淡水fw
太多水!
Wasser, Water, 水 , H2O
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/nexus-live-debates
http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/scarcity.shtml
Demands for water are increasing - growing world population… 对水的需求增加-人口增长
Aral SeaFormerly 68,000km2• One of the four largest lakes
in the world 全球第四大湖• Shrinking since the 1960s for
Soviet irrigation projects• 1960s 灌溉用水计划导致水位下降,湖面积缩小
• 10% of original size by 2007• 2007仅为原来的 1/10 面积
Kazakhstan (north) autonomous region of Uzbekistan (south)
Cooperation 合作• Local village – water pump 水泵
• Regional - water from a river to irrigate farmland
• International - transboundary river basin/ political boundaries• Upstream & downstream users• different, sometimes conflicting
needs, claims and cultures.
Remember? 记得吗?
Water is limited - competing demands of water need cooperation …
水资源有限需要合作
Show that we care … 我们在乎…
• www.watercooperation2013.org• Our event is online for Hangzhou, China• Share stories, or photos in the social media• Translate campaign resources into Chinese
…raise awareness
Thank you for your support !
Gensee for recording the World Water Day Eventsand the Hangzhou Low Carbon Science and Technology Museum for the venue.
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