Oceania

Event: Hands along Dee Why Beach
City: Sydney
Country: Australia
Email: clennox@ozgreen.org.au
Web URL: http://www.ozgreen.org.au
Description: Local school children will form a human chain along Dee Why Beach to symbolise their determination to see an end to pollutants entering their waterways.
Students will undertake a series of activites to highlight local and global water issues.

 

Event: Year 5 from the gutters to the creek stormwater education session
City: Warracknabeal
Country: Australia
Email: clarkj@wca.vic.gov.au
Description: Year 5 session relating local runoff via stormwater into our creek, to use of creeks for all water uses in much of the world, and how we can care for our creek by keeping our stormwater cleaner .

 

Event: World Water Day 2002 - Water for Development Awareness Campaign
City: Secretriat based in Suva, a Pacific Regional Project
Country: Fiji
Email: rhonda@sopac.org.fj
Web URL: http://www.sopac.org.fj/
Description: SOPAC is an independent, intergovernmental, regional organisation established by South Pacific nations in 1972, and dedicated to providing applied geoscience technical support to the 18 Pacific Island member countries whom we serve.
SOPAC Water Resources Unit (WRU) have for the past several years taken up the lead role for efforts for World Water Day celebrations in the Pacific region and will continue this responsibility for 2002. The New Zealand High Commission have kindly agreed to provide partial funding for the World Water Day 2002 campaign together with the British High Commission, Suva Office who have provided sponsorship for the past three years.
A regional consultation process for the Pacific has recently commenced led by ADB and SOPAC, as part of the preparation for a global water conference, the 3rd World Water Forum, in Japan in 2003. This consultation process provides an opportunity for the Pacific to address the actions required to achieve sustainable management of its water sector. World Water Day 2002, will usefully contribute to the public awareness of this regional preparation.
This year the campaign will again consist of a regional component, but will in addition have a sub-regional component for Melanesia, establishing a sustainable educational capacity for water awareness.

 

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