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BY RESEL JOY TIANERO
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Wednesday, March 22, 2017
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ILOILO City – Today is World Water Day. Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD), the sole water distributor in this city, is campaigning for water conservation.
Every mother month actually, MIWD is conducting workshops in public schools emphasizing the importance of water hygiene and sanitation, and conservation, said Olive Ledesma, senior information officer of the water district.
In 1993, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly designated March 22 of every year as World Water Day.
It’s a day to make a difference for the members of the global population who suffer from water related issues, according to UN.
It’s a day to prepare for how mankind should manage water in the future, it added.
Just this March 20, MIWD visited TCT-AR Foundation Integrated School in Barangay Lanit, Jaro district. It also opened a photo exhibit on water at the Iloilo provincial capitol.
Today, MIWD will be holding a film showing on water conservation at its office on Bonifacio Drive.
Walk-in customers and MIWD employees may also test their water conservation knowledge by participating in a trivia contest also at the water district’s office.
Ledesma said Ilonggos must also be knowledgeable on wastewater management.
“Ang wastewater naton indi dapat magkadto sa suba kay ma-pollute ang aton nga mga rivers and seas,” said Ledesma.
According to worldwaterday.org, today there are over 663 million people living without a safe water supply close to home, spending countless hours queuing or trekking to distant sources, and coping with the health impacts of using contaminated water.
This year’s World Water Day focuses on wastewater.
“Globally, the vast majority of all the wastewater from our homes, cities, industry and agriculture flows back to nature without being treated or reused – polluting the environment, and losing valuable nutrients and other recoverable materials,” according to worldwaterday.org.
Instead of wasting wastewater, people should reduce and reuse it, it stressed.
“In our homes, we can reuse greywater on our gardens and plots. In our cities, we can treat and reuse wastewater for green spaces. In industry and agriculture, we can treat and recycle discharge for things like cooling systems and irrigation,” worldwaterday.org suggested.
By exploiting this valuable resource, man will make the water cycle work better for every living thing, it stressed, “And we will help achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 6 target to halve the proportion of untreated wastewater and increase water recycling and safe reuse.”/PN
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