National Water Week
19 - 25 October 2008
Clean Water: Essential for life!
National Water Week is designed to assist our community to take actions that help protect and conserve our most precious resource - water. This website is your portal to a national schedule of programs and events that encourage protection, rehabilitation and improvement of water environments such as streams, wetlands, waterways, beaches, and estuaries.
Anyone can get involved in National Water Week, with activities and events in your area. Year-round we also have a great range of water saving tips, competitions and giveaways.
2008 - The International Year of Sanitation
Rich or poor, young or old, everybody does it.... But going to the toilet takes on a very different dimension for some of the world's poorest people. Around the world, 2.6 billion people do not have a clean and safe place to use for performing their bodily functions - they lack that basic necessity, a toilet. This hidden global scandal is the cause of millions of preventable deaths every year. Every 20 seconds, a child dies as a result of poor sanitation. That's 1.5 million preventable deaths every year. (Source, UN International Year of Sanitation 2008)
In Australia, we really are the lucky country. Find out more about CLEAN WATER.