World Water Day 2019 is focusing on ‘Safe Water for All’
This year the UN is focusing on their sustainable Development Goal 6 which is to provide safe drinking water for all by 2030. The theme of the day is about ‘Leaving no one behind’ in providing safe drinking water around the world. This World Water Day, 22nd March, is about tackling the water crisis by addressing the reasons why so many people are being left behind.
Incredibly there are still 2.1 billion people that live at home without safe water to drink with a staggering 700 children under five years old dying every day from diarrhoea linked to unsafe water and poor sanitation. This Friday the UN is spreading awareness about this preventable problem and showing the huge scale of the problem.
700 million people worldwide could be displaced by intense water scarcity by 2030.
To ‘leave no one behind’, we must focus our efforts towards including people who have been marginalized or ignored.#WorldWaterDay #Water4All https://t.co/Y5VFGL2LVl pic.twitter.com/fs1dgrKVfc
— UN-Water celebrates #WorldWaterDay (@UN_Water) February 26, 2019
The UN is encouraging people the ‘Learn’, ‘Share’ and ‘Act’ on the world’s water crisis. So, firstly make sure you’re familiar with all the issues surrounding this year’s theme. World Water Day’s website has some great information about the water problem. Secondly, let people know about this problem and just how severe the issues are. A great way to do this is through social media using #worldwaterday. And finally, do something about the issues, no matter how small your actions they all contribute towards an important cause.
Sustainable Development Goal 6 is crystal clear: water for all by 2030. By definition, this means leaving no one behind. But today, billions of people are still living without safe water – their households, schools, workplaces, farms and factories struggling to survive and thrive. Marginalized groups – women, children, refugees, indigenous peoples, disabled people and many others – are often overlooked, and sometimes face discrimination, as they try to access and manage the safe water they need.
Water-to-Go and World Water Day
Part of Water-to-Go’s mission is to protect our customer’s health by providing clean safe drinking water anywhere in the world. For this reason, we are excited to see that the UN has chosen the theme of clean water for all and helping to raise awareness about the world’s water crisis. Working with organisations such as Just A Drop as well as individual volunteering programmes has helped us do our small bit to help combat provide clean safe drinking water to those who need it most.
Water-to-Go helping provide Clean Safe Drinking Water
Water-to-Go have donated many bottles and supported a number of fantastic charitable projects to help bring clean safe water to areas of the world which do not currently have easy access to safe drinking water.
In one of our most recent blog posts, we outlined how we helped support Sara Broring on her volunteering in South Africa. Sara is a cardiac physiologist and through the Echo in Africa project has been helping children with cardiac diseases in Africa. We provided bottles for Sara to donate to the families in the community she was working in that didn’t have access to clean safe drinking water. If you’d like to find out more about Sara’s story click here.
Water-to-Go working with tourism operators
We are also working with many leading tourism operators to help lower their carbon footprint and help their customers stay safe and healthy wherever they go. By using a Water-to-Go bottle, they will be access safe, clean drinking water from any non-saltwater source so they can stay hydrated and do their bit for the environment by cutting down on single-use plastic bottles.
World Water Day marks our anniversary of working with Explore Worldwide who specialise in small group adventure holidays and travel tours. Water-to-Go produced branded bottles so that they could offer to their customers on their trips to provide safe water and eliminate plastic bottles. So far they have saved around 105,000 single-use plastic water bottles which is fantastic. If we all take their stance and make ‘microchanges’ in our life, we will make a difference.
Celebrate World Water Day with Water-to-Go
To mark World Water Day, we are offering a 22% discount for a limited time on our website. Take advantage of this offer and show your support towards World Water Day. To redeem the discount, visit www.watertogo.eu and use code WWD22 at the checkout.
Happy World Water Day!
