World With Water

Happy Earth Day everyone! Today, we are announcing that…….. *drumroll* we our switching our website to worldwithwater.snappages.com! We put our Earth Day post up there. Please go on the new site and let us know what you think! We will not be deleting our Edublog, but we won’t be posting anything new. Please go on our Snappages from now on. Thank you SO much for the support, and we will continue to keep posting on the new website!

As of today, our website has been up for 6 months! We have over 600 views, are in 28 countries and are in 6 continents. Thanks SO much for the support!

Here is the project that we made. Thank you to everyone who answered!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaCw1-2gRKw&feature=youtu.be

Here are some pictures that were taken by Ava:

Tonight is the premiere of the World with Water project! Tune in at 7pm EST to see our project! Some of the admins will be online so you can ask questions, make comments, etc. Thanks to everyone who answered the questions!

Click this link at 7pm EST to watch our project! http://www.livestream.com/worldwithwater

Happy World Water Day! World Water Day occurs every year on March 22nd. World Water Day was started because someone recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development that there should be a day to celebrate fresh water. The first World Water Day was on March 22nd, 1993. One aspect of fresh water is featured every year. This year, the theme of World Water Day is Water and Food Security. Every 20 seconds, a child dies because of a water-related illness. Millions of people are without clean water. The theme is Water and Food security because water is one of the main factors for food production, and without clean water, we won’t have very much food either. Click here to learn more about World Water Day: www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/

Here are some things you can do for the 2012 (Water and Food Security) World Water Day:

• Donate to a water charity that fights for everyone to have access to clean water
• Raise awareness through social networking sites
• Tell your friends and family
• Don’t waste fresh water!

http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/21/world-water-day-help_n_1370898.html

http://www.worldwaterday.info/page/4138

TO ALL THAT ARE ON THE WEBSITE PLEASE KEEP COMMENTING AND TELL EVERYONE THAT YOU KNOW !

We can make a difference if we stand together and our website won’t be as effective without more viewers! We need to show people how bad Nestle is! Go to their website and you will see what they are really doing and what is really in their water bottles!

By: Christopher James Manuel from worldwithwater.edublogs.org

Here are some March/April announcements!

1. Upcoming Project: Thanks to everyone who has answered the 4 questions already! We are accepting answers until March 21st.  The premiere of this project will be on March 22nd at 7 pm, Eastern Standard Time. It will be streamed live on our Livestream (link here). We will be talking before and after the project, accepting questions, etc. During the project, you can chat with us on the sidebar. We hope you will tune in on the 22nd at 7 pm!

Hey guys, Ava is helping write this post today because she went to the Dominican for a week and wanted to share what has been going on. You have most likely seen pictures she took recently on the website. Here is an idea of what people in Dominican have to live with and why we shouldn’t take our tap water for granted.

Here in North America, we take our tap water for granted. In other countries around the world, they can’t even drink their tap water due pollution and bacteria. One of these countries is the Dominican Republic. They are surrounded by a beautiful, clean, salt-water ocean. Although it is clean, you can not drink salt-water. When I went to the hotel, there is a sign beside all sinks saying, “Do not drink any of the tap water or wash your face with it.” I think that sign was there because they have a limited supply of clean water and need to prioritize the uses of this water prevent a shortage. We should be thankful that we have a large supply of clean water that we can drink, and don’t have to worry about running out to the same extent that they do. We have to be careful because once we run out of water, we can’t get it back as quickly. We need to stop wasting water and appreciate how much we have.

We have an upcoming project and we NEED you to answer these 4 questions.

You have 4 ways of doing this:

1. Comment below and answer the 4 questions (comment on this post)

2. Answer on our Google Docs form                  Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?

3. Post your answers on our Facebook Page  Link: http://www.facebook.com/Worldwithwater

4. Tweet your answers to us on our Twitter   Link: https://twitter.com/#!/WorldWithWater

Answer these questions to be involved in the next upcoming project! (If you don’t want your name on the project, just put N/A for Question 1) There is no minimum (except for 0 words ) or maximum for these questions, so answer as much or as little as you’d like.

Here are the 4 questions:

1. What is your name? (you can put N/A if you want)

2. Fill in the blank: To me, World with Water is ______________. (you can put as little as one word or as much as you’d like)

3. What is your opinion on Nestle?

4. What is your opinion on plastic water bottles?

WE NEED YOUR ANSWERS BEFORE MARCH 20TH! Please send this to everyone and look for the special post on March 22nd!