GREEN Corridors, the Durban-based NPO which co-creates open green spaces within the city for people in communities to live, work and thrive, calls on citizens to use World Water Day, 22 March, as a time to evaluate their relationship with water.
World Water Day, which takes place during South Africa’s National Water Week (15 to 22 March), is an annual United Nations Observance that focuses on the importance of fresh water in the world, using the theme “valuing water” in 2021.
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The Green Corridors clean-up teams and nature guides regularly witness the ongoing devastation of waterways and environmentally important spaces through both alien invasive plants and the irresponsible disposal of litter that ends up in waterways.
“Most people including businesses, don’t understand that water from our stormwater drains flows directly into our waterways, and so they often discard their litter in gutters or even down stormwater drains” explained the organisation’s Susan Dlamini.
“All of this flows into our rivers and the sea, with a huge impact on water quality. If we could just start at being mindful of how we get rid of our litter, it would help so much towards alleviating this.”
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She urgeed everyone to think about how human beings contribute to the health, distribution of, and access to water.
“We encourage people to join the World Water Day conversation on social media, which will help effect some change whether through policy or infrastructure or behaviour, working towards the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 of water and sanitation for all by 2030.”
The World Water Day campaign asks global citizens to discuss how they value water, as this determines how water is managed and shared.
The various Green Corridors Green Spaces teams along with partners such as Adopt-a-River, WESSA, with funders such as RMB, SAPRIPOL and PETCO, and others, such as conservancies, and eThekwini Municipality Cleansing and Solid Waste, Parks Department and Sihlanzimvelo co-ops, focus on environmental hotspots, where clean-up teams remove alien vegetation as well as litter from waterways and their surrounds in an attempt to improve the quality of the water.
This waste is then channelled to recycling and repurposing projects so that plastic waste can be repurposed.
Follow Green Corridors on social media or World Water Day, and tag your post with #water2me and #WorldWaterDay.
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