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n honour of World Water Day, BurlingtonGreen will be presenting: White Water, Black Gold on March 21st to kick-off our 2012 eco-film festival. You can learn more about this great event here.

What is World Water Day?

International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.

An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The United Nations General Assembly responded by designating 22 March 1993 as the first World Water Day.

 Each year, World Water Day highlights a specific aspect of freshwater and 2012 focuses on Water and FOOD.

There are 7 billion people to feed on the planet today and another 2 billion are expected to join by 2050. Statistics say that each of us drinks from 2 to 4 litres of water every day, however most of the water we ‘drink’ is embedded in the food we eat: producing 1 kilo of beef for example consumes 15,000 litres of water while 1 kilo of wheat ’drinks up’ 1,500 litres. Learn more about this important issue by checking out this video and World Water Day website here.