Educating
Title:towards a sustainable future
Subtitle:
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 behaviors 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 behaviors 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 behaviors 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 behaviors 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
水資源學校
Title:模範村
Subtitle:
印度 Swarovski 水資源學校的另一個重點就是倡導模範村。這項計劃已經有 10 個模範村參與，其中教學的對象不僅是學生，還拓展到當地農民。800 多名農民接受了節約用水以及衛生和可持續農業方面的培訓，以減少水的浪費以及在農田中使用有害化學物質（如殺蟲劑和化肥）的情形。這個培訓的目的在於讓農民了解，可持續發展不僅對環境有益，也可以提高農作物的收成。
Swarovski 水資源學校也修理了政府的手壓泵（村落的主要淡水來源），並建造滲水坑以減少產生液體和廢水，繼而改善每個模範村的用水與衛生設施。這些措施改善了 1500 個家庭的飲用水。
Swarovski 水資源學校希望藉由與印度學生和農民的持續合作，扭轉該國的水資源危機，為後代子孫創造出更健康、更具可持續性的環境。
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Swarovski 水資源學校也修理了政府的手壓泵（村落的主要淡水來源），並建造滲水坑以減少產生液體和廢水，繼而改善每個模範村的用水與衛生設施。這些措施改善了 1500 個家庭的飲用水。
Swarovski 水資源學校希望藉由與印度學生和農民的持續合作，扭轉該國的水資源危機，為後代子孫創造出更健康、更具可持續性的環境。
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