Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world's bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day. The aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion around an important issue that impacts us all. This year's theme is ‘water’.
Some participants/facilitators of the Rising Voices grantee organizations have also participated in this event. Let us look at some of their efforts.
Water is very, very expensive. Plus, the South part of Madagascar is suffering of lack of water. They must buy water far away of their house, and then bring it back home on a cart pulled by donkeys.
Therefore, moderate use of water is needed, we shouldn’t waste water, and should keep it drinking.
* The “Re-use of wastewater to water the rice fields, after filtering it successively with charcoal and sand “.
* There is no latrine, or better toilets. In the case of Southern area of Madagascar, they suffer of the lack of water. They need to buy water brought to them by car, or cart pulled by donkeys because there is no local water source. There’s mostly desert.
“There will be no water from 13:00 am to 20:00 …” read the statement the local water company in La Paz in March 2008. The reason was that maintenance should be done after the pipeline of the Hampaturi Plant borke, which provides drinking water to the south, east and south east of La Paz.