Today is #WorldWaterDay. Water is essential for life - hence the hashtag #WaterIsLife And fresh water is essential for life on land. World Water Day helps us to remember and focus on that. 1/ https://t.co/EQsINFmwXs #WorldWaterDay2022 #EveryDropCounts #makeeverydropcount
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One consequence of damage to our climate is that a warmer atmosphere holds more water - so rain events can become less frequent & more extreme. 2/ #ClimateImpacts #WorldWaterDay #WorldWaterDay2022 #EveryDropCounts #makeeverydropcount
This is a big contributor to drying of our soils as well as floods that bring destruction, disruption, disease and lack of drinkable water, and freshwater that flows to sea rather than soaking into the ground. 3/ #ClimateImpacts #WorldWaterDay #WorldWaterDay2022 #ExtremeWeather
Our increasing population & higher living standards also increase demand for fresh water. So too does extracting coal & gas - which in turn increases damage to our climate & the consequences of that damage. 4/ #WorldWaterDay #WorldWaterDay2022 #ClimateActionNow #EveryDropCounts
Eating large amounts of meat (esp. red meat like beef & lamb) and dairy also consumes large amounts of freshwater & damages our climate. Eating more plants (including protein from plants) is good for us & our common home. Try #MeatFreeMonday 5/ #WorldWaterDay #ClimateActionNow
All this underscores our need to value highly our freshwater and to use it carefully. This is why there is a growing focus on #EveryDropCounts. 6/ #WaterIsLife #MakeEveryDropCount #WorldWaterDay #WorldWaterDay2022
As well as those efforts and some posts I have written, I like the #makeeverydropcount campaign run in Melbourne, Australia. Check out its practical hints for us here: https://t.co/e9qAO3RcYK 7/ #WaterIsLife #MakeEveryDropCount #WorldWaterDay #WorldWaterDay2022
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We also need systems-level changes. One thing we can do to get them is to vote for ppl focussed on the common good (not vested interests) - esp. ppl committed to #water as a public good & taking transformative #ClimateActionNow. #WaterIsLife #WorldWaterDay #WorldWaterDay2022
