World Water Day is on the 22nd of March.
I discovered that earlier in the week, when I booked in a GIS session in a school in Peterborough and was checking the dates.
There are some useful resources on the website which accompanies WORLD WATER DAY.
Links through to some useful short animations on the water that we all EAT.
Water should perhaps form part of the curriculum a little more than it does currently.
We've also seen the term PEAK WATER - following Peak Oil, Peak Food, Peak Population ?
You can also join the World Water Day Flickr Group and post your pictures of water use.
A few other water resources that I'll put here (partly so that I can always find them again)
Joseph Bergen's VISUALISATION is a superb tool for comparing the water use in various countries, and also against various different aspects of the use.
There's also a rather splendid NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC map which shows water footprints.
There are figures and graphics for a range of crops and also particular watersheds of rivers.
This was part of a National Geographic feature, for which we wrote a series of FRESHWATER missions in Mission:Explore style.
There is also the ongoing situation relating to water in the SE and the chance of a drought. This will fit in with the idea of WATER SCARCITY. I discovered yesterday that there are some speed restrictions on the railway line between King's Lynn and King's Cross which are due to the ground shrinking as a result of low levels of rainfall for the last few years. I'm preparing to queue up at standpipes this summer if we don't have a lot of rain....
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