The reason I pick this water source

The water I choose is “school drinking water”, the reason I choose this is because I drink school water everyday, therefore I really want to find out is it clean or not. It’s important to know because not only me drinking it, but all the students, including some teachers drink it too.

UN Read – Global Water

• According to Millennium Development Goals Report 2012, 783 million people doesn’t have access to drinking water.
• The world has met the MDG drinking water target five years ahead of schedule, but it’s not completely done.
• Over 40% of people in Sub-Saharan Africa live without improved drinking water.
• The Unite Nations has held many conference about water, and helped 1.3 billion people in the developing countries to gain access to safe drinking water.
• One of the most recent millstones (July 2010) by the United Nations General Assembly of the human right to water and sanitation.
  • every human being have the right to have access to sufficient water for personal and domestic uses (between 50 and 100 litres of water per person per day)
  • water costs should not exceed 3% of household income
  • the water source has to be within 1000 metres of home and collection time should not exceed 30 minutes.
• The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) depends on the achievement of the water and sanitation target:
  • eradicating extreme poverty and hunger
  • achieving universal primary education
  • promoting gender equality
  • empowering women
  • reducing child mortality
  • improving maternal health
  • combating HIV, AIDs, malaria, and other disease
  • ensuring environmental sustainability
• To help raise public awareness on the importance of water for life, the General Assembly declared 2003 International Year of Freshwater.
  • UN Water – UN inter-agency coordination mechanism for all freshwater and sanitation related issues
  • Water for Life – proclaimed by the General Assembly in 2005 -2015
  • World Water Day – began on 22 March 2005.

http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/water/

Semester 1 Review Mind-Map

Guest speaker – Mr Kenny Peavy

1. Read/search/get to know our guest speaker better. Learn about all his adventures, projects and more.

• His hobbies: hiking, fishing, camping, and exploring the outdoors.
• He has written and published over 45 natural history and travel articles published online and in print in both the US and Malaysia.
• Now he works with First Aid Asia to offer Emergency First Aid and Wilderness First Aid courses.
• For the past 17 years, he has worked as both a science teacher and Naturalist in the United Sates, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.
• “As if the Earth Matters” was his first book, co-authored with Thom Henley.
• “The Box People” was his second book, is a children’s book that helps us rediscover our connection to the natural world.
• In 2001, he was recognised as “Volunteer of the Year” by Georgia Adopt-A-Stream program for his efforts in training citizens in water quality monitoring.
• In 2003, he was award a Ford Motor Company Eco-Grant to serve as founder and first chairman of the Malaysian Nature Guides. And he was named ‘Volunteer of the Year’ by the Malaysia Nature Society in 2004 for his work wight he Malaysian Nature Guides.
• In 2012, he and his friend Jamie rode bamboo bicycles across South East Asia to awareness for sustainability, conservation and environmental education in the region.
• He loves playing guitar, Rock for the Environment to raise funds for conservation and local NGO’s in Malaysia.
• Big adventure “Green Paddlers” take place in April 2014, paddle around Phuket, Thailand to raise awareness for conservation and environmental education.

2. Post group picture of finding what you love and what you care about creation.

3. Reflection following the guiding points below:

• How is this workshop connected to our class and what we have been learning?
  It can connected to our class in many ways because it’s all about saving the environment / nature. What Mr.Kenny did was to inspire people not to hurt the environment. He travel by using bicycle that made from bamboo instead of steel, this shows that he is trying not to harm the environment as much as possible which is what we are been doing in class as well. We have been learning to be “sustainability” meaning living within the means of our environment and ensuring that our lifestyle doesn’t harm other people.
• What does it mean to do all this? Is it only for people who have too much time to spend/waste?
  The reason behind all these actions is to inspire people to work together in order to save the environment and nature. Because our world is become worse due to the climate change, therefore, we are raising awareness to let people know how the world is going on. So people could start take action in saving the environment by recycling, reduce plastic, reducing pollution, etc.
  This is not only for people who have too much time to spend/waste, but for people who see the important of environment/nature and our future.
• Personal level: what have you connected the most with today’s workshop? What is your next step? Pick one of your “what you love” and pick one “what you care about”.
  What I connected the most is what Mr.Kenny said about nowadays’ kids who spend time indoor more than outdoor which is true because I’m also out of them. And I think we should try to spend more time doing activities outdoor.
  What I love: Traveling
  What I care: Children / Orphanage
  Connection:
  Travel to different places where children / orphanage need helps / facing difficulties to help them.
• Class level: how did we as a class participate and involve in the workshop? Did we respect the learning environment and our guest speaker?
  We did listen to his presentation and involve in the activity that he gave in class, but we didn’t really give much comment and feedback to him. However, we all respect the learning environment and our guest speaker.