Learners celebrate National Water Week
The Department of Water and Sanitation, in partnership with the Birchwood Hotel and OR Tambo Conference Centre, the Department of Education and the City of Ekurhuleni hosted the fifth annual National Water Week celebration.
A total of 120 learners from primary and secondary schools within the Ekurhuleni municipality participated in the celebration held at the Birchwood Hotel on March 14.
South Africa will celebrate National Water Week from March 20 to 26. The theme is, “Water has no substitute”.
Since it is also Human Rights Month, citizens are urged to celebrate water for human rights.
National Water Week is an awareness campaign run by the government. It stresses the value of water, the need for sustainable management of this scarce resource and the role water plays in eradicating poverty and underdevelopment in South Africa.
The gathering aimed at educating the learners about water conservation and sanitation matters.
Learners were given topics to research and created models and prepared presentations about how to preserve water. These were presented before a panel of judges.
Poovan Chetty, from the Department of Education, said events like these are important as they enable learners to spread the message on saving water.
“The platform is also utilised to educate the learners in order for them to gain knowledge and implement it in their respective communities,” Chetty said.
