World Water Day 2024

World Water Day is Friday 22 march 2024.

As we know, World Water Day takes place every year on March 22 to draw attention to the importance of fresh water and to advocate for the sustainable management of fresh water resources.

This year’s theme is “Water for Peace,” which emphasizes the essential role water plays in global stability and prosperity.

We all know that water is a very rare resource, so much so that we call it “liquid gold”. This is so important that when water is scarce or polluted, it slowly kills us; and when people don’t have access, tensions can rise between communities and countries.

According to the United Nations (UN),

more than 3 billion people around the world rely on water that crosses national borders. Yet, of the 153 countries that share rivers, lakes and aquifers with their neighbors, only 24 countries report having concluded cooperation agreements for all of their shared waters. Additionally, some countries are in conflict over water, such as the Dominican Republic and Haiti, which share the Massacre River. President Abinader wanted to prevent Haitians from capturing water from the Massacre River for the construction of an irrigation canal. But, The Haitian people declared: Kanal yo pap kanpe. And they built the first one.

Additionally, in many parts of the world, people do not have tap water at home. Sometimes he has to walk several kilometers to fetch water.

You don't have to go far to see this, let's go to Haiti, a small country almost surrounded by water, crossed by rivers and which has an average annual rainfall of 1400 mm. Poor resource management and the behavior of the majority of the population towards the environment force Haitians to make many sacrifices to obtain water.

Today, the situation has become more complicated, as the country has been facing bad governance for more than decades that is creating terrible insecurity throughout the country and where people are dying of thirst and hunger. Put yourself in their place, you who read me, listen to me or watch me on the YEE channel.

Let's think for a moment together, and imagine that we wake up one morning, we don't have a drop of water to drink or take a bath, or even wash our face. It's abnormal, right? Suppose again that you have a bottle of water at home and you want to use it to make tea to drink, that you turn to the garden and you do not find a small leaf of basil, lemongrass, soursop or jokeklub, or lemon balm because of drought.

How would you feel?

It's very frustrating, isn't it?

In the past, when we walked in the mountains, we saw beautiful springs and large rivers where we bathed. Our countryside was a paradise where life was good.

And yet, it is a fact. In Haiti and in many other places in the world, people are dying of thirst and hunger because agriculture has collapsed and agricultural land has been destroyed.

People's health is in danger. All kinds of diseases fall on them due to lack of drinking water and poor nutrition.

YEE, which is constantly educating us on how to manage our water affairs in our country, how to preserve it, how to not let water be wasted, so that everyone can have it, will continue to work with us to reverse the situation, to hope that the population can grow to see water flowing from its taps every day; and that rainwater and rivers do not continue to flow, causing serious damage to communal areas before flowing into the sea.

Let's keep our mountain lands with adequate watershed management.

Let's work together to put in place appropriate biological and mechano-vegetative infrastructures in our watersheds in order to conserve water upstream.

I know that you who follow me here would not like to find yourself in this situation. Whether it is your loved ones or yourself in particular, you would like water to be available and accessible to everyone, everywhere in the world. Well, to make that happen, play your part. Help us, however you can, in the work we do.

“Water is life and no one can live without water. » Let's work together to bring forth the water of life all over the world, mainly in Haiti.

Give what you can and commit to continuing to work with us to make water resources sustainable, so that the next generation will carry us in their hearts.

Thus, YES for Education and Environment will be able to:

1. Continue to better educate the population on the importance of water in their lives, and on how to manage it more responsibly, by promoting change in their habits so that the resource can be sustainable;

2. Carry out many water conservation projects to conserve land and water in the mountains, prevent flooding, and improve agriculture so that everyone can get water and food;

3. Influence public policies to ensure sustainable water at the governmental level;

4. Provide support for scientific and technological research in order to develop innovative solutions for the efficient use of water.

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