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Have you hugged your H2O today???

IT'S UN WORLD WATER DAY!!! GIVE THAT LIQUID SOME 😍💧❤️

"WATER IS LIFE"

https://www.worldvision.org/clean-water-news-stories/10-worst-countries-access-clean-water

So sad so many in the world don't have access to clean water. These ten countries are extreme examples of how bad it is for these people. Throughout the world so many do not have the water security we take for granted.

WORLD WATER WEEK and WORLD WATER DAY MARCH 22, 2023.

Teachers are you planning activities? Would you like help finding resources? Smallfeat Education we would love to assist with "boots in the mud," place-based activities and projects for you and your students to share with other classrooms here and abroad.

Go to Smallfeat Education and Gennxt Green News in Action for ideas, activities and resources.
Also of note: smallFEAT is also paricipating in the Global Lighthouse Studios "Water is Life" international project that includes over 80 classrooms from more that 30 countries. WOW! How cool is that?

Global Lighthouse Studios is cutting the edge of creating platforms for students to get involved in the Arts, their communities and discovering a life-long commitment becoming the next generation of leaders and change-makers.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/sanitation

Key facts:
* In 2020, 54% of the global population (4.2 billion people) used a safely managed sanitation service.
* Over 1.7 billion people still do not have basic sanitation services, such as private toilets or latrines.
* Of these, 494 million still defecate in the open, for example in street gutters, behind bushes or into open bodies of water.
* In 2020, 45% of the household wastewater generated globally was discharged without safe treatment.
* At least 10% of the world’s population is thought to consume food irrigated by wastewater.
* Poor sanitation reduces human well-being, social and economic development due to impacts such as anxiety, risk of sexual assault, and lost opportunities for education and work.
* Poor sanitation is linked to transmission of diarrhoeal diseases such as cholera and dysentery, as well as typhoid, intestinal worm infections and polio. It exacerbates stunting and contributes to the spread of antimicrobial resistance.

Mangrove reforestation provides greater blue carbon benefit than afforestation for mitigating global climate change - Nature Communications Blue carbon benefit has not been compared among mangrove reforestation and afforestation pathways at the global scale. This study shows that mangrove reforestation could perform a greater carbon storage potential per hectare than afforestation as its higher nitrogen availability and lower salinity.

Mangrove reforestation is vital for so many reasons

Mangrove reforestation provides greater blue carbon benefit than afforestation for mitigating global climate change - Nature Communications Blue carbon benefit has not been compared among mangrove reforestation and afforestation pathways at the global scale. This study shows that mangrove reforestation could perform a greater carbon storage potential per hectare than afforestation as its higher nitrogen availability and lower salinity.

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https://hlw.org.au/newsroom/5-awesome-facts-about-mangroves/

Great fun facts, detailed info about mangrove habitats, and a really nice pdf poster to download and print for your students.

For more about mangrove lesson plans and resources contact Smallfeat Education [email protected]

5 awesome facts about mangroves - Healthy Land and Water Mangroves are woody plants that grow parallel to shorelines or tidal creek systems. They are ecologically important ecosystems that link the land and sea and provide the basis for one of the most important ecosystems on Earth. The mangrove is a unique tree that has attributes which make its protecti...

https://hlw.org.au/newsroom/5-awesome-facts-about-mangroves/

Great fun facts and detailed info about mangroves, and also a really nice pdf poster that can be downloaded and printed for your classroom!

For more about mangrove lesson plans and resources contact [email protected] Smallfeat Education Gennxt Green News in Action