Theme 2012: Water and Food Security
World Water Day 2012 is coordinated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Grow Missions is happy to participate in World Water Day 2012
The theme of "Water and Food Security" is high on the agenda this year with three major international events — the World Water Forum, World Water Day and World Water Week — that address the relationships between water and food production and look at ways to feed growing populations within the boundaries of our freshwater resources.
Few people take the time to think about the poor people of the world and how the water issues in one region may in fact effect people in other regions yet in the opposite way. In many parts of Africa for example, rain water is plentiful and provides adequate resource for the plants and trees that sustain life with food. Yet these same areas depend on the same water to drink. That same water that runs down the slopes, absorbing fertilizers and animal waste, and flooding into the local rivers and streams. Yes, their food resource is good, but the water they drink is killing them. Just a few hundred kilometers away could be a region where not enough water exists for growing any food because it was diverted to a factory or facility needing that resource for production of an export product.
Water is scarce and we need to pull together across the world to make a difference. While things are improving, we need to insure our efforts are across all regions and classes of people. Between 1990 and 2010, over two billion people gained access to improved drinking-water sources. While there is cause for celebration, we must also face a number of drawbacks. One is, that global figures mask massive disparities between regions, between countries in regions and within countries between urban and rural settings as well as between rich and poor.
Grow Missions continues to provide clean drinking water solutions to the poor school children is western Kenya through the construction of Rain Water Collection and Storage systems. Targeting children in rural schools that are still beyond the reach of government efforts, we seek to end the cycle of dysentery and sickness that is crippling the poor.
Please join our efforts on this special day! Spread the word, join the cause, or donate funds to save a life! Let's not let this crisis continue!
"Unless we increase our capacity to use water wisely in agriculture, we will fail to end hunger and we will open the door to a range of other ills, including drought, famine and political instability." Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Message for the World Water Day 2012
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