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The keys to success

We were wondering-what is the key to success in such a competition?

Two of our Drop by Drop competiton jurors shared with us their opinions (A third, European Commissioner Connie Hedegaard answered separately our 3 Questions to…)

Jens Assur, one of Scandinavia´s best known photographers is one of seven jurors. He is known for his work development issues such as "Hunger" a book series published in 2010. While Assur is from Sweden, another juror, the graphic designer Ferah Perker, comes from a different part of Europe: Turkey. While Assur is a photographer/film director; Perker has 19 years experience in graphic design and advertising and has worked as an art director for major network advertising agencies and clients in Turkey.

Drop by drop: Still time to make a difference

DBD logo EN More than 1,000 submissions have been entered into the “Drop by Drop: the Future we want”, the European Newspaper Ad Competition with about one week until the 29 February deadline to enter the comptetition.

“We are delighted that once again European “artivists” have answered our call, and have by the thousands shown how they care in a creative way, which we hope will inspire people to take action,” says UNRIC Director Afsané Bassir-Pour, the main organizer in partnership with the Brussels Office of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). “But we want more ads and although many of the ads are great, we want even more quality. There is still time to design an ad that can make a difference”

Already submissions have been entered from 40 of the 48 European Countries which are Member States of the UN.

What you eat as important as what you drink

UN-Photo-Kibae-Park Preservation of water, does that mean we should drink less water? Perhaps that might help, but strange as it seems, giving a thought to what you eat might be more useful. On average each of us drinks 2-4 liters of water every day.

Rio+20 Panel: A more sustainable growth model

RIO +20 logo EN World leaders will gather in Rio de Janeiro from 20-22 June this year, at Rio+20 - the UN Conference on Sustainable Development.

Rio+20 will take stock on where the world is now, twenty years after the "Earth Summit" in Rio which gives the 2012 conference its name. However, the organizers emphasize the conference's forward looking character by adding the slogan "The Future We Want."

Making water a human right

UN Photo: Logan-Abassi. A-boy-in-Cité-Soleil In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly recognized that water and sanitation should be a human right. Water as a human right is as much about the quality, making sure that the water is clean and you do not get sick from drinking it, as it is about access.

As UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said: "Safe drinking water and adequate sanitation are crucial for poverty reduction, crucial for sustainable development and crucial for achieving any and every one of the Millennium Development Goals".

A Spanish testimony on a threatened “Waterland”

Enrique Pacheco says he thinks he was born to be a photographer.

However, there was nothing inevitable about him becoming a photographer who focused on the abundant water resources of a country bordering the Arctic circle. Pacheco was born in Madrid 33 years ago in a country better known for its long dry summers which increasingly result in water scarcity.