OPPORTUNITIES / PHOTO: Photo Competition 2010 - ACP-EU Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)

Enter your favourite photos of people managing water and technology to win up to €5,000 in prizes in the CTA “Peoples’ Choice Photo on People, Water and and ICTs”

Upload your photos or vote for your favourite photos in the following themes:

* People and water (water use and management, including coping mechanisms used by ACP people with respect to water or its lack);
* Technology and water (information and communication technology (ICT) and information and communication management (ICM);
* Water and environment (role of water and climate change in agricultural and rural development).

Just click on annualseminar2010.cta.int/photo to post your photo or to vote for your favourite photo. The grand prize? A digital camera and an opportunity to participate – all expenses paid – in the annual seminar entitled Closing the Knowledge Gap: Integrated Water Management for Sustainable Agriculture, in Pretoria, South Africa , where the best photos will also be on display during the seminar from the 22-26 November 2010.

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OPPORTUNITIES / ESSAYS / CALL FOR ENTRIES: Like A Drop of Water

Like A Drop of Water’s writing contest offers young people, ages eight through seventeen, world wide the opportunity to share their ideas on how they and their countries can reduce global warming and pollution.

Beginning in June 2010, for at least the next five years, four or more monthly winners will receive awards of one hundred dollars. Like drops of water that make up the oceans, millions of people of all ages, can lead the way to bringing about the positive change we need to create a sustainable planet.

Here are the Official Rules

• The contest is open to all young people in the world between the ages of eight and seventeen.
• All essays and entry information must be in English.
• All entries become the property of Like A Drop of Water, Inc.
• Essays are to be 200 words or less.
• Winners will be notified by email and will be required to submit the following information.
• Full name of entrant and age.Name of sponsoring adult.
• Complete mailing address.
• With the sponsoring adult's permission the winner's essay and name will be posted on the website.
• Teachers and their classes may submit a collaborative entry.

No personal information received will be given away, sold or in any way transferred to another company or individual without the express written consent of the sponsoring adult.

Check out the Like A Drop of Water's home page and entry form for more information and to submit your essay.

Water on Earth and in space – the ESA/UNICEF water quiz

26 August 2009

To mark ESA astronaut Frank De Winne's six-month OasISS mission to the International Space Station, and triggered by his role as goodwill ambassador for UNICEF Belgium, ESA's Human Spaceflight Education Team has teamed up with UNICEF to launch an online quiz for 12-14 year old European children.

The theme of the quiz is water on Earth and in space. UNICEF is currently running a campaign called WASH about water and hygiene. The campaign centres on the importance of clean water for human life.

full article - ESA & UNICEF water quiz website