World Water Day Carnival 2012
Once again, for the third year, the Aqua Initiative celebrated World Water Day, with the World Water Day Carnival on Thursday 1st March 2012 at Dubai International Academy. The event ran from 14:30 – 19:00 with a number of family-focused activities, such as: bouncy castles, slides, gladiator arena, bungee trampoline, climbing mountain, fairground games and much more.
There was food provided by Subway sandwiches and Desert Chill Ice Cream was present. The event was free entry, but each activity costed. All proceeds go to charity. There was also be a special Wild Wadi Raffle at Dhs 10 per ticket giving you the chance to win free tickets to one of Dubai’s biggest water parks.
It was a unique and worthwhile event that will be a lot of fun while helping hundreds of people around the world by providing clean water and sanitation. Learn more on the Facebook page.). You can also learn more on the World Water Day page of the website (click the link in the menu)
Facebook Official
The online social sphere is now one of the most important and most popular interfaces on the planet. From high school teenagers to corporate officials to government bodies, everyone is on Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. The Aqua Initiative is too. In the build up to our major event this year, the World Water Day Carnival on Thursday 1st March at Dubai International Academy, we shall be releasing a great amount of information onto our Facebook and YouTube pages. This is a fast and easy way to reach as many people as possible, however, we need more likes and subscribers. Follow the links below to join our pages.
The Aqua Initiative on Facebook
The Aqua Initiative on YouTube
You can also click the ‘f’ at the top of the page to get to the Facebook page, or the YouTube logo on the right sidebar to get to the YouTube page.
More people around the world have access to mobile phones than toilets!
Facts on Sanitation around the World
- Today, lack of satisfactory sanitation is the largest cause of death, in the world.
- Only 62% of the world’s population has access to proper sanitation facilities.
- 1.2 billion people around the world have no sanitation facilities at all.
- 2.5 billion people suffer from a lack of improved sanitation.
- Lack of proper sanitation causes major bacterial infection.
- At any time, half of the world hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from a water-related illness.
- One-third of deaths in children due to diarrhea could be prevented through satisfactory sanitation.
- 90% of all diarrhea related deaths occur in children under the age of five.
- The majority of all illness around the world is the result of poor sanitation
