Valuing water for World Water Day by cleaning Hennops
The value of water is about much more than its price.
Residents can join the Clean-a-River campaign over the long weekend to help save sections of Gauteng like the Hennops River in Centurion under the direction of Hennops Revival.
The Rotary Wash action group, Armour as a Voice for Water and water activists in three different areas have come together in support of World Water Day 2021.
They will lead the Clean-a-River campaign over the weekend of 20 to 22 March to bring awareness to this year’s topic of valuing water.
World Water Day has been held on the 22nd of March each year since 1993. It is an initiative spearheaded by the UN, alongside Unesco, the World Water Council and the World Wildlife Fund.
The UN sustainable development goal 6 aims to provide sanitation and water for all by 2030. The theme for World Water Day 2021 is “valuing water”.
The value of water is much more than its price – water has enormous and complex value for our households, food, culture, health, education, economics and the integrity of our natural environment.
Water is in critical short supply in South Africa, with a 17% shortfall anticipated by 2030.
Rivers in Gauteng are polluted with sewerage, industrial waste, illegal dumping and trash including an abundance of plastic. South Africans will have to change the way they think and act if they are to meet the anticipated water shortages.
There is also a humanitarian crisis along the rivers created by homeless persons who live in camps out of sight of the authorities and the general public.
Many of these persons can only earn meagre incomes from waste recycling and casual labour. They are caught in a poverty trap from which few manage to escape.
Clean-a-River plans to hire persons from the camps to assist with the programme in their camp vicinities.
The objective of the Clean-a-River campaign is not only to remove and possibly recycle waste but to grow a sustainable public awareness of the dire state of our rivers and how we should value our critical water resources.
For further information or to make up a team to participate in the campaign, please contact:
David Grant 083-626-4523 or Mark McClue 081-262-9505.
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