Water resources
Here’s some are some resources and places of interest where you can learn more:
UN Water for Life Decade resources for kids
UNICEF Voices of Youth learning module on water and sanitation
Water Education for Teachers, Project WET
World Water Forum: World Water Council article on Water Education, empowerment and behavior change are key to successful action.
Together with the United Nations Global Teaching and Learning Project, Cyberschoolbus, the Earthchild Institute developed an educational project designed to connect school children from different parts of the world with one another to learn about water in a project called Pumped Up for Peace.
From our founder, Donna Goodman:
Every Body Counts, Every Drop Matters: United Nations Classroom Resource Guide on Water
She was contributing author or advisor to the following participatory water-educational resources:
UNICEF USA: Water and Sanitation for All, Bringing the Issue Home, Curriculum Resource for Middle School Teachers. You can download a PDF of this Teaching Guide here
World Water Council article: Children and Young people add enthusiasm and impact on MDG 7, Target 10 PDF
Final report of the 2nd Children’s World Water Forum for UNICEF at the 4th World Water Forum in Mexico City 2006: Here is the PDF Version 4th Water Forum
The Oxford Roundtable on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Education for Schools: Here is the PDF version
Biovision World Life Sciences Children’s Forum
Case studies on the best practices and lessons learned in children and young people in the sector from Lao PDR and Tajikistan
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UNESCO, World Water Development Report 2003
UNICEF: http://www.unicef.org/wes/index_healthandeducation.html
Children living in substandard housing on low flood plains are at high risk of drowning, since they are less likely to be able to swim and are dependent on adults during an emergency. For example, the 2003 Bangladesh Health and Injury Survey of more than 171,000 households established that drowning is the single leading cause of death among children aged 1-18, having overtaken pneumonia and diarrhoea. According to the survey, nearly 17,000 children in Bangladesh drown each year, and about four times as many, over 68,000 children, nearly drown.
