2 June was declared as the Day of the Kura-Araks rivers basin protection in 1999 under initiative of the South-Caucasian HGOs coalition "Kura-Araks". This initiative got support from the donor organizations and the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Georgia and in 2004 - from the Global Water Partnership.
Every year in the Southern Caucasus countries the 2 June is celebrated by various actions: regional and national conferences, lectures, "cleaning action", roundtables, demonstrations etc. These are accompanied by the issuing of newsletters, banners, pocket calendars, T-shirts, videos etc.
This year the following events were organized:
" "Cleaning actions" in Tbilisi - the young volunteers from the high educational institutes participated (more than 100 people);
" "Cleaning actions" in Akhaltsikhe - local partner organizations participated (more than 30 people);
" Demonstration in Tbilisi - CWP-Georgia, students, Mayor of Tbilisi and officers (about 100 people);
" Special pocket calendars were disseminated - 10 thousand calendars.
Demonstration in Tbilisi
"Cleaning actions"
Disseminating the pocket calendars