Educating
Title:towards a sustainable future
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Since 2000, the Swarovski Waterschool has educated children and communities on sustainable water use, helping to safeguard the availability of clean water and support the health and wellbeing of people and the planet. In India, this program is especially crucial as the country is experiencing a water crisis due to changing weather patterns, repeated droughts, and an over-extraction of groundwater.
To help solve this water crisis and to reach out to more students, Swarovski Waterschool and its implementing partner WWF India have teamed up with Mission Paani, a nationwide initiative focused on protecting India’s water resources and changing attitudes and behaviours to improve the efficiency of water use. Swarovski Waterschool is providing its local Waterschool curriculum to Mission Paani to be shared in thousands of schools across India to educate children about their relationship with the environment, specifically water, and how human behaviours have both negative and positive impacts on the natural world. By encouraging students to understand the water-related problems facing environments like wetlands and rivers, and how this effects their communities, they can begin to adopt sustainable habits that could become the norm for future generations.
“We need to make people and children understand that water is a precious element.”
– Ravi Singh, Secretary General and CEO of WWF India
To help solve this water crisis and to reach out to more students, Swarovski Waterschool and its implementing partner WWF India have teamed up with Mission Paani, a nationwide initiative focused on protecting India’s water resources and changing attitudes and behaviours to improve the efficiency of water use. Swarovski Waterschool is providing its local Waterschool curriculum to Mission Paani to be shared in thousands of schools across India to educate children about their relationship with the environment, specifically water, and how human behaviours have both negative and positive impacts on the natural world. By encouraging students to understand the water-related problems facing environments like wetlands and rivers, and how this effects their communities, they can begin to adopt sustainable habits that could become the norm for future generations.
“We need to make people and children understand that water is a precious element.”
– Ravi Singh, Secretary General and CEO of WWF India
Waterschool
Title:Villaggi modello
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Un altro obiettivo della Swarovski Waterschool in India è il sostegno ai villaggi modello. 10 villaggi modello hanno già preso parte al progetto, dove l’insegnamento non si concentra solo sugli studenti, ma si estende anche agli agricoltori locali. Oltre 800 agricoltori sono stati formati sulle pratiche di conservazione dell’acqua, sulle misure igienico-sanitarie e sulle pratiche agricole sostenibili per ridurre lo spreco idrico e l’uso di sostanze chimiche nocive (come pesticidi e fertilizzanti) nei terreni agricoli. La formazione si proponeva di dimostrare agli agricoltori come le pratiche sostenibili non sono solo un bene per l’ambiente, ma possono anche determinare una resa più proficua dei raccolti.
Swarovski Waterschool ha anche modificato l’acqua e i servizi igienico-sanitari di ciascun villaggio modello, riparando pompe manuali pubbliche, fonte fondamentale di acqua fresca nei villaggi e costruendo fosse di drenaggio per ridurre gli sprechi di liquidi e acqua. Tali iniziative hanno migliorato l’acqua potabile di 1.500 nuclei familiari.
La Swarovski Waterschool spera che il costante lavoro con gli studenti e gli agricoltori in India possa contrastare la crisi idrica del paese, creando un ambiente più sano e sostenibile per le prossime generazioni.
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Swarovski Waterschool ha anche modificato l’acqua e i servizi igienico-sanitari di ciascun villaggio modello, riparando pompe manuali pubbliche, fonte fondamentale di acqua fresca nei villaggi e costruendo fosse di drenaggio per ridurre gli sprechi di liquidi e acqua. Tali iniziative hanno migliorato l’acqua potabile di 1.500 nuclei familiari.
La Swarovski Waterschool spera che il costante lavoro con gli studenti e gli agricoltori in India possa contrastare la crisi idrica del paese, creando un ambiente più sano e sostenibile per le prossime generazioni.
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