World Water Day - 22nd March 2008

 

World Water Day Official Website and UN Website.   Click on the link for a Worldwide Water and Sanitation Fact Sheet.

Celebrate 40 years of the IRC - International Water and Sanitation Centre - helping to support and provide low-cost water supply, sanitation and hygiene in developing countries. The Water Supply & Sanitation Collaboration Council (WASH) also work to help people around the world without adequate sanitation and help us all to view water, sanitation and hygiene as an inseparable trinity for development.

Did you know that 2008 is also the ‘International Year of Sanitation’ - find out all about what happening around the world on their Sanitation Updates blog. This is also part of the UN ‘Water for Life Decade 2005-2015′ initiative.

If you have the BBC World channel check out ‘Clean Living’ in Earth Report being broadcast on Friday 14th March - 20:30, with repeats at 10:30 on Monday 17th March, 15:30 on Tuesday 18th, and 02:30 and 08:30 on Wednesday 19th.

                           

Have a look at the ‘Sanitation Library’ to find official documents.  

Check out the tips for saving water in your own home - Eartheasy, Direct Gov.,  Environment Agency.

How you can help - WaterAid.org, Justadrop.org, Charity:Water , WaterLife 

Find out more about this subject in the Library @ 333.7
 

World Skills Competition - Get Involved

 

 

 

Have you got what it takes?

Worldskills UK is on for 2008! Find out more information for your subject on their website and ask your tutors for more details…..

Waterworks

 The Professionals : Association of Plumbing and Heating Contractors, Institute of Plumbing and heating Engineering, World Plumbing Council, Heating and Hot Water Industry Council, Corgi and more for the UK.

Business Information

 

Glossary and Plumbing News!

Magazines : Plumbing & Mechanical (online, full text through ATHENS - ask in the library for your password)

Careers

Find books for your course in the library at shelf no. 696.1