Our project “Water is life” aimed at raising awareness of schools, authorities at local and national level, CSO’s on environment protection and enhancing their role in using water in a sustainable way. The overall aim was to stimulate increased knowledge of students and teachers on the importance of water and how it can be used efficiently in school. The project emphasised the importance of including water education in schools curriculum. We recognized that learning the“why’s” and personally adopting the “how’s” of water conservation is greater when students are shown how water affects the daily lives at their schools and their community. By incorporating these interdisciplinary activities into an existing curriculum, we motivated teachers and students to look at their own, as well as their families’ water use patterns and will then be able to differentiate between patterns between using water and conserving water. İn addition, the project included activities that contributed to greening our environment by reducing schools water consumption and assessing how much they use every day and developing creative and innovative ideas which will contribute for more sustained use of water in the future.
Water is a crucial aspect of our lives and we need to be aware of how our activities affect it. Water consumption takes many forms and has serious consequences . We use it not just for drinking and washing but also for industry, agriculture and making almost any kind of product, from food and tin cans to newspapers and cars. We are accustomed to having water when we want it. However, as population increase and businesses and industries expand, our water resources might be strained. Raising Water conservation awareness was our project imperative. According to the latest survey, EU countries use billions of cubic metres of water every year not only for drinking water, but also for use in farming, manufacturing, heating and cooling, tourism and other service sectors. With thousands of freshwater lakes, rivers and underground water sources available, the supply of water in Europe may seem limitless. But population growth, urbanisation, pollution and the effects of climate change, such as persistent droughts, are putting a huge strain on Europe’s water supplies and on its quality use in farming,manufacturing, heating and cooling, tourism and other service sectors. Over the past 30 years substantial progress has been made by EU Member S