Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk supported the World Water Day

24th March - English Speaking Club. International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. Each year, World Water Day highlights a specific aspect of freshwater. Statistics say that each of us drinks from 2 to 4 liters of water every day, however most of the water we ’drink’ is embedded in the food we eat: producing 1 kilo of beef for example consumes 15,000 liters of water while 1 kilo of wheat ’drinks up’ 1,500 liters. When a billion people in the world already live in chronic hunger and water resources are under pressure we cannot pretend the problem is ’elsewhere’. Coping with population growth and ensuring access to nutritious food to everyone call for a series of actions we can all help with: - follow a healthier, sustainable diet; - consume less water-intensive products; - reduce the scandalous food wastage: 30% of