World Water Day 2010

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In 1992, the United Nations created World Water Day, celebrated annually on March 22 in an effort to increase awareness of the global water crisis as well as solutions to address it.  With nearly one billion people around the world without clean drinking water and 2.6 billion still lacking basic sanitation, focusing attention on this issue is incredibly important.

Take the time today to check out the documentary, “The Waterkeepers,”featuring the grassroots program launched by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Waterkeeper Alliance. Like an environmental “Neighborhood Watch” program, waterkeepers take polluters to court, respond to citizens’ complaints about water pollution, identify problems that affect rivers, bays, lakes and streams; devise appropriate remedies and act as living witnesses to the condition of local ecosystems.

Waterkeepers have helped to clean up and protect hundreds of water bodies around the world from pollution and dirty industries.  Commemorate World Water Day and learn more about what you can do by watching “The Waterkeepers,” on SnagFilms.