STUDENTS from primary and secondary schools in Suva took part in activities which taught them about the importance of water.
Students of Mahatma Gandhi Memorial School and Stella Maris Primary attended World Water Day celebrations at the Suva Civic Centre yesterday.
With the theme 'Coping with water scarcity' students and teachers took part in activities which highlighted ways to conserve water.
The activities were organised by the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) and Live and Learn Environmental Education.
Doris Ravai, a formal education co-ordinator, said water education played an important part in environmental education programs.
"The booklet Our Islands with Water is a positive approach to the 2007 theme and examines ways people in the Pacific can deal with our water resources," she said.
Ms Ravai said education was essential to the International Water for Life Decade and Millennium Development Goals of halving, by 2015, the number of people without access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation.
She said a student activity book and stickers have been sent to Live and Learn offices in Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, the Maldives and Cambodia.
"Copies have also gone to SOPAC for regional use and the Ministry of Education," Ms Ravai said.
Source: Fiji Times
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