{"id":7550,"date":"2018-10-09T23:24:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T21:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vodnaagencija.org\/en\/?p=7550"},"modified":"2018-10-09T23:24:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T21:24:09","slug":"only-with-preserved-water-we-defend-the-right-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vodnaagencija.org\/en\/only-with-preserved-water-we-defend-the-right-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Only with preserved water we defend the right to life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roga\u0161ka Slatina, October 8th<\/sup> \u00a02018.<\/p>\n

On Roga\u0161ka Slatina, the kingdom of water, in the exclusive area of Ana\u2019s Maison, on October 5th<\/sup>\u00a0 2018, was held the 4th International Conference of the Water Agency.\u00a0 The conference was officially opened by the Mayor of the Municipality of Roga\u0161ka Slatina, mag. Branko Kidri\u010d. He pointed out that infrastructure projects are in the first place in the municipality, but they are always ready to support projects aimed primarily at educating children and events that attract a large number of guests. The conference was attended by 70 participants. Expert contribution to the conference was given by 15 participants from 6 countries – Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia, Austria and the Netherlands.\u00a0 In addition, as part of the conference, was organized a round table. In this open form of discussion, 6 representatives of companies presented their projects and entrepreneurial ideas, in a very dynamic atmosphere. All their technological processes or \u00a0products eliminate water pollution.<\/p>\n

The topic of this year’s conference is “The impact of international communication on our Water Footprint”. Participants in their presentations and during the discussion, each from the domain of their work and dealing with water, gave completely new insights into this insufficiently known concept. Of course, the most important is the fact, the methodology of work and the results presented by the school project coordinator at the Water Footprint Network organization, Lara Wohler from the University of Twente in the Netherlands.\u00a0 The data she provided as results of research work,\u00a0 gave us a completely new dimension to the real consumption and pollution of water for each of us. \u00a0Especially surprisingly large quantities of water in the production of food and clothing materials. This led to a figure of 4000L \/ person in Europe as the average amount of water needed to serve everyday needs.<\/p>\n

Representatives of public water management companies of Hrvatske vode and Vode Vojvodine presented their educational programs and contents, \u00a0as an impact on reducing the degree of vulnerability of the living and protected world around us. The conference was also attended by representatives of public utility companies for water and sewage from Rijeka, Slavonski Brod and Subotica. They had their \u00a0expert presentations, but also exchanged their experiences with mag. Bojan Pir\u0161em, director of OKP Roga\u0161ka Slatina. \u00a0It was specially interesting presentation by Karin Kaiblinger from the gutessen consulting. She spoke about the methodology of implementing a project promoting drinking water from the tap in the City of Vienna. Vienna is a city that gets water from the Alps, and residents have the privilege of drinking spring water. There are 900 public taps \u00a0in the city.\u00a0 However, the mentality of the consumer society has led to the fact that it is now necessary to educate and motivate the children to return to the taps and drink water from the water supply instead of from a plastic bottle.<\/p>\n

Presentation of the project \u00a0development started by dr. Tatjana Kikec, expert associate Water Agency. After that, \u00a0we have heard several successful examples of the implementation of the project Water agent in primary schools in Slovenia and Croatia and examples of good practice of cooperation between public utility companies and schools. It was particularly interesting to hear about the development of the project beyond the regional level. \u00a0Bence Cseke from IMRO DDKK Nonprofit ltd from Hungary presented two currently activated European projects: Water agent 003 financed from the Vi\u0161egrad Fund program, as first. The other is Wat.Edu, a project financed by the Erasmus + program, and whose \u00a0implementation begins next month with partners from Hungary, Greece and the Czech Republic. In addition to the Water Agency\u00a0\u00a0 in the project Wat. Edu\u00a0 a partner is I Primary School from Roga\u0161ka Slatina, also.<\/p>\n

A special thematic block – a round table was particularly interesting and dynamic. The discussion was preceded by several surprises. First we had a live stream\u00a0 from Bled Lake, from captain of the boat that sails on that lake. The boat is completely ecological, it is run exclusively by rowing. Subsequently, the voucher for the best Water Agents was presented to Jo\u017ee Cvetko,\u00a0 \u00a0President of the Water Agency Association. The voucher was awarded by mag. Margarita Maru\u0161ki\u0107 Kula\u0161, general manager of Aquatika – Freshwater Aquarium from Karlovac. The excursion is intended for the best participants of the project and winners of the creative competition that we open soon and is intended for the participants in the project Water \u00a0agent. After all, the participants visited very interesting exhibits in the Ana\u2019s Maison.\u00a0 Music program at the opening of the conference was performed by the students of the Music School from Roga\u0161ka Slatina and the children’s choir from the I Primary School from Roga\u0161ka Slatina, also.<\/p>\n

After the program during the conference day, participants on October 6th organized a professional thematic excursion. First, they introduced mineral resources and the history of Roga\u0161ka Slatina with the expert for waters,\u00a0 mag. Alja\u017e \u010coha. Then they visited \u00a0the Waterway Kostrivnica, where the waters\u00a0 flow from Bo\u010d and come to springs of Roga\u0161ka Slatina. \u00a0Our hosts, Jo\u017ee Strni\u0161a, the president of the local community Kostrivnica and two students took guests to an old water mill that was competently renovated. We also tasted and compared mineral waters from two sites: Lenke\u010dka, named after the family that owned the land with the water from the Royal Spring.<\/p>\n

The \u00a0especially interesting \u00a0part of the day was \u00a0visiting ponds for cultivation of several freshwater fish by recirculation method in \u0160marje pri Jel\u0161ah. \u00a0Owner mag. Danijel Gospi\u0107 introduced the visitors with the whole process of production, ideas and technology and was pleased to answer their numerous and interesting questions. It was a pleasure to see a natural process and a cycle conducted through a great entrepreneurial idea.<\/p>\n

The conclusion of all participants in the conference is that we must learn to respect Her Majesty to Water. After that, we can \u00a0work intensively on the education of children who are the best multipliers of ideas towards the whole community. Only with preserved water we defend the right to life.<\/p>\n

Majda Adle\u0161i\u0107, program manager of the Water agency<\/p>\n

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