Valuing Water

In 2020/21 ACEF was adapted to an online delivery method and Commonwealth Alumni had the opportunity to design and create a video information session for their chosen community. The aim of the session was to communicate key information and raise awareness about valuing water.

World Water Day, 22 March 2021

The theme for World Water Day 2021 was ‘valuing water’.

World Water Day is about taking action to tackle the water crisis. Worldwide, one in three people do not have access to safe drinking water, two out of five people do not have a basic hand-washing facility with soap and water, and more than 673 million people still practise open defecation because of a number of constraining factors.

Valuing water is a shared responsibility. As a society, we must understand the multiple values of water to different groups and the importance of protecting water sources and ecosystems, ensuring access to safe drinking water and managed sanitisation, and investing in water infrastructure and innovations. Education and public awareness on the value of water and its crucial role in all aspects of life is essential to this.

In 2020/21 ACEF was adapted to an online delivery method and Commonwealth Alumni had the opportunity to design and create a video information session for their chosen community. The aim of the session was to communicate key information and raise awareness about valuing water.

All the videos created are available to watch on the CSC’s YouTube channel now.

World Water Day ACEF Activities

You can read about the video activities delivered by Commonwealth Alumni to mark World Water Day 2021 below – as well as the impact these video activities had on their chosen community