Dear DAI, or should I say dear Cappadocia people!

I find something about this issue, but in South Florida (Water Management District). You can find out more about water quality, flood control, water supply, ecosystem restoration etc..

You can check it on: http://www.sfwmd.gov/portal/page?_pageid=2754,19862620&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

And this also.. I find this about the Turkey and water waste, actually, it was “actions” with schools and kids..maybe we can work something with young people?…I don’t know…

Eco-Schools Competitions: “Eco-Code” and “Eco-Project”
Eco-Schools in Turkey will have two challenging tasks this year, besides the environmental problems they are coping with! FEE Turkey decided to organise two competitions at national level. One of the competitions is the well-known Eco-Code competition, already been implemented in Portugal. The Turkish version of the competition is slightly different from the Portuguese one, requiring one eco-code sentence from each of the themes implemented in Turkey, namely litter & waste, energy, and water. However, we tried to keep the standards similar in order to prevent any difficulties in case the competition is transferred to an international level by the international coordination, as discussed in the Eco-Schools National Programme Managers meeting in Edinburgh. The other so-called “Eco-Project competition” aims to activate schools to develop innovative eco-schools studies against environmental problems they are facing, not only in their schools, but also in their community. The word “project” does not refer to a scientific study, but the whole concept of reporting to the coordination:

* how an action against an environmental problem started?,
* which method(s) are implemented to overcome the problem?,
* and what are the results achieved at the end of the study?.

The project is thought to be beneficial for encouraging pupils to develop innovative tasks against environmental problems and increasing their abilities to work in a project team and to report back their studies. The competition will also activate and revive the studies in the schools, which are not applying for the green flag for the current year. The deadlines for the competitions are determined as the end of March for Eco-Code and mid of May for the Eco-Project competitions. Results of both will be announced at the end of May, and awards will be presented in the National Green Flag Award Ceremony.

(November 2002)

		Eco-Schools Festival in Ankara, Turkey At the end of the 2003-2004 school year, project activities accelerated in Turkey. On 29 May, 2004 an “Eco-Schools Festival” took place in Ankara with the participation of 12 schools! They exhibited their projects, pictures, handworks made of wastes, photographs of activities and children played dramas giving messages about protection of environment, singing and dancing. There were two competitions at the festival, one was among schools and it was the “Stand Competition” and the other one was among children and it was the “Picture Competition” (pictures which were painted by children during the festival were evaluated). As prizes, we gave education technology sets provided from Mobilsoft Mobile Information and Communication Technologies Inc., which was one of our sponsors for the festival. Other supporters were the Ministry of National Education - General Directorate of Primary Education, Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, Ankara Cankaya Municipality, Nobel Marketing Inc. and The Chamber of Architects of Turkey. Through the festival, schools had the chance to share all Eco-Schools activities with public and it was a great chance for us to introduce Eco-Schools to the city! Similar festivals will be carried out in Bursa and Eskisehir too in the coming days! All those festivals are done for the first time, and we aim to make them a tradition!

Sorry, now is maybe to much..Ok, all this is just a product of surfing through the internet, and I ‘m not so sure that it can help at all, but, who knows, maybe somebody will have an idea how to “start” this process..

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 at 11:15 pm and is filed under On Water.