World Water Day observed by the United Nations on 22nd March, celebrates water and raises awareness about the 2 billion people living without access to safe water. World Water Day 2023 is about accelerating change to solve the water and sanitation crisis.
Dysfunction throughout the water cycle is undermining progress on all major global issues, from health to hunger, gender equality to jobs, education to industry, disasters to peace.
Back in 2015, the world committed to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 as part of the 2030 Agenda – the promise that everyone would have safely managed water and sanitation by 2030. Right now, we are seriously off-track to meet this. Billions of people and countless schools, businesses, healthcare centres, farms and factories don’t have the safe water and toilets they need. To accelerate change, we need more action.
THERE IS AN ANCIENT STORY OF A HUMMINGBIRD AND IT IS ABOUT HOW WE REACT TO A CRISIS. RIGHT NOW, WE FACE A WATER AND SANITATION CRISIS. DO WE STAND AND STARE? OR, DO WE ACT?
‘One day in the forest, a fire broke out. All the animals ran for their lives. They stood at the edge of the blaze, looking at the flames in terror and sadness. Up above their heads, a hummingbird was flying back and forth to the fire, over and over again. The bigger animals asked the hummingbird what she was doing. “I am flying to the lake to get water to help put out the fire.” The animals laughed at her and said, “You can’t put out this fire!” The hummingbird replied, “I’m doing what I can.”’
THE HUMMINGBIRD IS HELPING SOLVE THE PROBLEM, ONE DROP AT A TIME. SHE IS BEING THE CHANGE SHE WANTS TO SEE IN THE WORLD. YOU CAN BE A HUMMINGBIRD, TOO. THE ACTIONS YOU TAKE, NO MATTER HOW SMALL, WILL HELP SOLVE THE WATER CRISIS.
As a Church, we can make a difference by changing the way we use, consume and manage water in our lives. The Green Protocol 3 of the Church of South India (CSI) mentions the importance of Water Conservation.
Visit our Green Parish Page for more information on environmental care and the CSI Green protocols : https://www.csidubai.com/environmental-care
Source : https://www.worldwaterday.org