From a distance, Kalima Primary School in Chikwawa district in the Southern part of Malawi looks like any other public school in the country; happy children running up and down around the school campus but cautious of the scotching heat. Temperatures in Chikwawa can get as high as 40 degrees Celsius and yet, the only water tap at the school is mostly dry. Children must brave both the heat and unending desire to quench their thirst.
GWP China Senior TEC Advisor, Guoliang CHEN, former Chair of GWP China Fujian and member of the Standing Committee of the ninth Fujian Provincial People's Congress, donated his publication "Drink Water from The Same River - 23 Years of Water Sharing Between Fujian & Taiwan" to the Fujian-Taiwan Museum in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, late February 2022.
On the occasion of the first National Science Month, in response to the call from the China Association for Science and Technology and the Ministry of Water Resources, China, focusing on the theme "Science and Technology Change Life, Innovation Wins the Future," GWP China Yellow River Basin Water Partnership and the Yellow River Institute of Hydraulic Research organized two events named "The Yellow River with You: Yellow River Science Reaches Communities."
Thank you to all the entrants who took the time to enter the World Water Day (WWD) 2022 Caribbean Groundwater TikTok Challenge! You have all contributed to building greater awareness in a creative way about groundwater and its importance!
At the end of April 2022, GWP-WA Secretariat was approached by the Benin CWP with a request of collaboration from the National Water Institute of Benin to mobilize resource persons in the region to provide appropriate content and to conduct 3 webinars on:
GWP-C Reads is a video production based entirely on GWP-C’s children’s book “Saving Water: The Journey of Two Caribbean Kids to Understanding Water Security.”
Born in 1934, Dr. Madhav A. Chitale has played a major role in getting India’s decision-makers and strategic planners to think of water as a resource whose quality and availability need to be safeguarded. As a part of the nationwide programmes to develop cover several rivers, Dr Chitale was one of those who originated of the Ganga Action Plan to improve the waters of the holy river. He was also involved in the development of the World Water Council and the Global Water Partnership.
