To speak of environmental education for a sustainable use of water is to speak of a transformative education that pushes us to change the way we use water resources towards the so-called New Water Culture in which we are aware that “without achieving access to water and sanitation in SDG6, it will be difficult to achieve the other goals”, as warned Carlos Garriga, director of the We Are Water Foundation, and where we must give back to nature what it has given us through a circular economy model. A necessary commitment not only in the transformation of the water sector itself that looks towards digitization and non-conventional resources, but also that of society.
“It is important to reconnect people with the physical, chemical and socioeconomic reality, which is to have aquatic ecosystems for our development.”
The involvement of civil society is key to putting on the table the urgent need to manage and use the water we have in an efficient and sustainable way, and environmental education is one of the main ways to achieve this.