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World Water Day 2007
The Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center hosted a real time videoconference and webcast on March 20, 2007, with representatives of the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization in Rome. Students in schools in Philadelphia, Vancouver, Canada, White Plains, NY, Lindenwold, NJ, and Karachi, Pakistan, joined in the discussion of the world's water shortages.
Students from the High School of the Future and the High School for Peace & Social Justice in Philadelphia participated onsite at the Water Works Interpretive Center. Each school made a presentation of its own water-related project. The High School of the Future is recycling water and adopting other water conservation methods. The middle school in White Plains has raised $60,000 via its Global Run project to install pumps to bring drinking water to Masai villagers in Kenya.
GEM president Wayne Jacoby, who coordinated the webcast, calls water scarcity and sharing of resources "the most important issue in maintaining peace and security in the world. Water is more likely than oil to create international conflict."
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