Celebrating at Low Carbon Science and Technology Museum, in Hangzhou on 23 March 2013

• Monthly meetings 每月一会• Networking among environmental professionals

or those interested in the environment• 全球 578 城市有 Green Drinks• Speakers welcome 欢迎来讲座

3 月 22 日 – 世界水日

• Same day 每年这天 • Focus attention on the

importance of freshwater关注淡水

• United Nations General Assembly designated 22 March 1993 as the first World Water Day.

咸水 淡水

淡水fw

太多水！

Wasser, Water, 水 , H2O

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/nexus-live-debates

http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/scarcity.shtml

Demands for water are increasing - growing world population… 对水的需求增加－人口增长

Aral SeaFormerly 68,000km2• One of the four largest lakes

in the world 全球第四大湖• Shrinking since the 1960s for

Soviet irrigation projects• 1960s 灌溉用水计划导致水位下降，湖面积缩小

• 10% of original size by 2007• 2007仅为原来的 1/10 面积

Kazakhstan (north) autonomous region of Uzbekistan (south)

Cooperation 合作• Local village – water pump 水泵

• Regional - water from a river to irrigate farmland

• International - transboundary river basin/ political boundaries• Upstream & downstream users• different, sometimes conflicting

needs, claims and cultures.

Remember? 记得吗？

Water is limited - competing demands of water need cooperation …

水资源有限需要合作

Show that we care … 我们在乎…

• www.watercooperation2013.org• Our event is online for Hangzhou, China• Share stories, or photos in the social media• Translate campaign resources into Chinese

…raise awareness

Thank you for your support !

Gensee for recording the World Water Day Eventsand the Hangzhou Low Carbon Science and Technology Museum for the venue.

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