World Water Day 2013

In 2013, World Water Day will be celebrated with the theme International Year of Water Cooperation, coordinated by UNESCO for UN-Water.

So, on March 22, we have many reasons to celebrate:

  • To recall that water is a valuable asset, essential for all life on earth.
  • That it is inseparable from the right to life and that there is no substitute for it.
  • That in Canada, the Great Lakes contain approximately 18 % of the world’s freshwater supply, making it by far the largest fresh surface water reserve in the world.
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Let us also celebrate the organizations which, on the provincial, national and international levels, are protecting this right:

  • Think about the United Nations which recognized, in July 2010, the right of access to clean water and sanitation as a right for everyone.
  • Think about  Eau Secours (in French only) which, on March 12, requested that the Quebec Government create a parliamentary commission for the dossier on fluoridation in drinking water because, for this organization, fluoride is a toxic product.

Five years after taking their collective corporative stand on water, by which they publically affirmed that “water is a human right and a public good”, the SNJM’s continue to believe in the concerted effort necessary to preserve water which is essential to life.