March 22 is World Water Day!
World Water Day was first celebrated on March 22, 1993. The purpose of the day is to draw attention on freshwater resource stewardship around the world.
Read more about why World Water Day is celebrated on the United Nation’s website here.
How does Alabama Water Watch support freshwater resource stewardship? We help educate and train Alabama citizens of all ages and educational backgrounds on how to collect credible water quality data on their precious waterbodies, and empower them to use that data to protect and advocate for those waterbodies.
Here are just a few of Alabama’s beautiful waterbodies that we celebrate on World Water Day:
Saugahatchee Creek
Turkey Creek
Locust Fork
Take a moment to think about this small excerpt from Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax to focus our minds back on the importance of environmental and watershed stewardship (originally posted by www.rivers.gov), and please consider sharing your story about how you are a watershed steward with us.
“You’re glumping the pond where the Humming-fish hummed!
No more can they hum, for their gills are all gummed.
So I’m sending them off. Oh their future is dreary.
They’ll walk on their fins and get woefully weary in search of some water that
isn’t so smeary.”
…
“But now, says the Once-ler,
Now that you’re here,
the word of the Lorax seems perfectly clear.
UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
Its not.”
“So…
You’re in charge of the last Truffula Seeds.
And the Truffula Trees are what everyone needs.
Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care.
Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.
Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack.
Then the Lorax
and all of his friends
may come back.”
Happy World Water Day, Water Watchers!