Comments on: Today's World Water Day, and here's what you need to be reading/watching https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/todays-world-water-day-and-heres-what-you-need-to-be-readingwatching/ How active citizens and effective states can change the world Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:33:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Fabrice Vanegas https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/todays-world-water-day-and-heres-what-you-need-to-be-readingwatching/#comment-1134 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:38:40 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=2187#comment-1134 Hello Duncan:

I am a teacher presently working in Thailand. There is a sensitive issue here as far as water usage goes. Are you familiar with the Sonkran holiday? It’s a three day full on waterfight, everyone takes to the streets throwing indescribable amounts of water at each other. Check out the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBru3KrvH2Y&feature=PlayList&p=F5B10397E5F07AFB&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=12

How can I address this without upsetting cultural sensibilities? I have made them watch and analize “Blue Gold”. What could you recommend so that I may help my students gain more consciousness on how urgent the world water situation is.

Thanks for your time.

Fabrice Vanegas

]]> By: Stephen Jones https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/todays-world-water-day-and-heres-what-you-need-to-be-readingwatching/#comment-1133 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:50:11 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=2187#comment-1133 And although it’s a few years old (and I’m sure you’ve mentioned it before), it’s always worth re-reading the summary of the 2006 UN Human Development Report ‘Beyond Scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis’ (http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2006/)

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