The World Water Day 2006 was recently celebrated by the province of Oriental Negros with a series of activities that aimed to put communal focus on the importance of understanding and managing water resources better.

Simultaneous activities conducted during the World Water Day celebration were poster and slogan and essay writing contests, a demonstration on water purifying process, and a tree-planting at Lake Balinsasayao.

The United Nations has declared the period 2005 to 2015 as the Decade of Water to place greater international focus on water and water issues.

The decade also recommits countries to achieve the water-related targets of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, as well as the Millennium Development Goals set in 2000.

The 2006 World Water Day on the theme "Water and Culture" draws attention that there are as many ways of viewing, using and celebrating water, as there are cultural traditions across the world.

It also celebrates the importance of water in man's daily life.

Aside from this, the UNESCO Division of Water Sciences stressed that world economies are built on the strength of water transportation as cities are planned near water.*RG

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