Discover YUNGA's Water Challenge Badge

This booklet is intended as a guide for teachers and youth leaders. Take it and explore, play and discover – and while you're having fun, maybe you can even come up with some clever ways to help preserve water in your homes.

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Por la mañana, de Larisa Friné Jardón Barbolla (Distrito Federal)
Video produced by OHCHR- Mexico

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No hay agua para nosotros, de Leonardo Toledo Garibaldi (Chiapas)
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Un trago de fortuna, de Ricardo Villegas Barrón (Estado de México)
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UN World Water Development Report 3: Water in a Changing World
Messages for Youth
The World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) recently published the 4-page document, Messages to Youth. Based on the findings of the latest World Water Development Report (WWDR-3), Messages to Youth communicates the key ideas about the threats facing the world's supply of fresh water and includes lots of links to interesting web sites for anyone who wants to get involved in safeguarding our water resources.

View / Download Messages for Youth (pdf 2.7 MB)

UNICEF Voices of Youth: Water, environment and sanitation
The UNICEF Voices of Youth web site has lots of interesting stuff for children and students who want to explore and become active in the field of water environment and health. It provides information on preventing water-related diseases and gives ideas and practical advice to young people on how to initiate their own community projects. It also features real life stories, interactive games (Water Alert), brain teasers and more. The photo on the left is from one of the site's photo journals.

Visit the UNICEF Voices of Youth: Water, environment and sanitation web site

Water Rights and Wrongs: A young people's summary of the Human Development Report 2006 - Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty, and the global water crisis
This 32-page booklet, prepared by The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Peace Child International, includes drawings, poems and stories on water and development, entirely made by and for young people.

Water Rights and Wrongs is available on line in English, French and Spanish.

It is also available as a pdf document in Arabic (9.6 MB - large file), Basque (2.1 MB), English (5.1 MB), French (5.6 MB) and Spanish (5.5 MB)

Water in the Twenty First Century
The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Centre of Catalonia (UNESCOCAT) and Caixa Catalunya’s Community Projects Department has developed educational materials based on UN-Water's flagship report, the World Water Development Report. These materials are not currently available in English.

The most recent collection, which is based on WWDR-2 and includes both posters and interactive teaching materials, is available in Catalan and Spanish. The first collection of educational posters, based on WWDR-1, is also available in French and Bosniak/Croat/Serb

UNESCOCAT has also created a computer game for upper primary and secondary students that allows students to explore and test their knowledge of the important lessons about water that are presented in the documentary ‘A Dream of Water’. For more information about how to obtain ‘The Dream of Water’ materials, please contact the UNESCO Centre of Catalonia

Water Aid: Splash Out! and Learn Zone
The two children on the left are Chandra and Amina. They help guide children and young people through Water Aid's kids site: Splash Out! The site is full of interesting facts and features, including the on line comic: The Adventures of Super Toilet. The site also has several interactive games, including 'Turdlywinks' and 'Pani the handpump'. Check out Splash Out!

The Water Aid site also has a 'Learn Zone' with lots of multimedia teaching resources for primary and secondary schools. Visit Water Aid's Learn Zone.

Splish and Splash
Splish and Splash is a video produced by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) for the International Decade for Action 'Water for Life'.

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Visit the web site of the International Decade for Action 'Water for Life'

A Trip With Drip The Water Drop
'A Trip with the Drip The Water Drop' is a colourful learning-by-doing workbook on water for children. Published in 2005 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Centre for Environment Education (CEE) India, it contain basic facts, interesting information, and several learning-by-doing activities on various aspects of water.

View / Download A Trip With Drip The Water Drop (pdf 15. 2 MB large file!)

You can order a print copy, which comes with a CD, from Earthprint.

Trishna and the Dream of Water
Trishna and the Dream of Water is a children's environmental storybook dealing with water in dryland areas. Published in 2006, it is part of UNEP's Tunza Environmental Series for Children. 'Tunza' means "to treat with care of affection" in Kiswahili.

View / Download Trishna and the Dream of Water (pdf 316 KB)

You can order a print copy from Earthprint.

For a complete the list of titles in the Tunza Environmental Series for Children visit the Story Time page on the Tunza for Children web site.

International Year of Freshwater 2003
Although it's been over 5 years since the International Year of Freshwater came to a close, the web site still has lots of interesting things for children, young people and teachers. Check out these pages:
Water Proverbs and the Water Proverbs Activity Sheet
Water Myths and Stories
Water in Different Languages and the Water Word Search Game
Colouring Corner

Visit the home page of the International Year of Freshwater

United Nations Cyberschoolbus: Water Quiz
The UN Cyberschoolbus Water Quiz helps children and young people to learn fascinating facts about water with the help of secret hints and pop-ups. Suggested ages: 8 and up.

Take the Cyberschool Bus Water Quiz

United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR): Stop Disasters Game
The UN/ISDR Stop Disaster Game includes a disaster simulation game on flooding. Play it and check your scores against players from around the world. The site also provides other information materials, including fact sheets and videos, on flooding and other disasters.

Check out the UN/ISDR Stop Disasters Game