English Abstracts
Here you will find the English abstracts of all articles.
Dr. Uschi Eid: The "UN Year of Sanitation 2008" – Toilets and Sewage: No More Taboos!
Contrary to drinking water issues, which receive considerably more attention and appreciation, the topic of toilets and sewage management is of little interest or even revolting to many people. Do to this taboo surrounding basic sanitation the general public is largely unaware of its immense importance for health and the environment.
Prof. Dr. Uwe Grünewald: Water and Extreme Events
As we know, the general public primarily devotes attention to "water" as a natural resource when there is either too little or too much of it or when the high quality water that we have come to take for granted is not available, making important uses impossible.
Dr. Gerhard Becker: Urban Water Education as ESD
Water education is one of the most popular topics of conventional environmental education. Usually, this education focuses on natural sciences or experience orientation, whereas, despite the multitude of perspectives they offer, urban areas are rarely covered. ESD has done little to change this.
Dr. Joachim Bley: Joint Development of the Water Landscapes of the Future - How Education Programmes Help Implement the Water Framework Directive
A biologist with the water management authority detects a problem with the colonization of a water body by microorganisms. The sewage treatment plant upriver is soon suspected to bet he cause and the community that operates it is obligated to invest considerable sums to expand the plant, even though its discharge values are already good.
Kirsten Dölle and Franca Schwarz: Education, Health, Water and Sanitation
The world population has quadrupled in the past one hundred years. At the same time, due in part to economic development, the global consumption of water has increased tenfold. Around the year 1800 only about two percent of all humans lived in cities, by 2000 this number had risen to approximately fity percent and a further increase to seventy five percent is expected by the year 2030.
Dr. Carolin Rettig and Prof. Dr. Werner Konold: Quality Standards for Practical Out-of-School Water Education
Due to its many uses, water plays a special role in our lives. It is the basis of life for all living beings, humankind uses it in many different ways for transportation, industry, agriculture and recreation and it has a high esthetic value. "Creeks and rivers embody the beauty of nature, are an integral part of a harmonic landscape, of the ideal landscape."
Interview with Dr. Ulrich Irmer
The Federal Environment Agency’s Water and Soil Department has a very wide range of responsibilities. To name but one of our current main areas of focus: we deal with technical, legal and economic aspects of implementing the EC Water Framework Directive, as well as other EC water protection directives.
Interview with Rainer Berg
Environmental education related to water has been a key area of activity of the Vereinigung deutscher Gewässerschutz e.V. (German Water Protection Association) Our nationwide activities in environmental education are intended for a broad range of target groups, covering pre-school, primary school, secondary school and out-of-school environmental education as well as vocational training and adult education.
Interview with Dr. Ralf Klingbeil
Much like education, water is of central importance to life and development opportunities in all societies. This holds true for Germany as much as for the rest of the world. In more developed countries, public debate does not often revolve around basic needs such as water and education...
Dr. Brigitte Biermann: Making Water Palatable
It is more ecological to drink tap water than bottled mineral water. The environmental impact of bottled water is ninety to one thousand times higher than that of tap water. Niels Jungbluth’s study contains a comprehensive life cycle assessment which also takes into account the effects of bottling, building and maintenance of water conduits and the transportation of a crate of water from the supermarket home and back (once empty).
Dr. Susanne Hofmann and Barbara Rasche: WasSerleben 2008 – The Bavarian Environmental Education Campaign
"WasSerleben 2008" is the motto of the first statewide environmental education campaign in Bavaria. From April to October, some 450 events will allow visitors big and small to experience water with all their senses. The multifaceted events have a strong sensory appeal and live up to the expectations created by the motto.
Erich Schmidt: The Wasser-Info-Zentrum Eifel – An Out-of-School Learning Location
The Wasser-Info-Zentrum Eifel (Eifel Water Info Center) has been operated by the City of Heimbach in the Eifel since 2003, with support from the private Karl-H.-Krischer Foundation. In addition to a permanent exhibition it offers numerous special events. Staging events for school children is one of its primary areas of activity.
Peter Strack: Singing for Water
For Hernán Yance from the hamlet of Uchuyri in the Peruvian mountain community of Quispillaccta 8 September is a special day. That day, the thirteen-year-old will supervise a campaign to clean the water channels. He is also responsible for conducting the related rites, in which Hernán will ask the water for permission to use it.
Karin Lendle and Dr. Rainer Tempel: "Naturwissenschaften hautnah erleben" – Experience Natural Sciences Firsthand
For three years now the Berufsbildende Schule Naturwissenschaften Ludwigshafen am Rhein (Ludwigshafen scientific vocational school, BBS) and regional primary schools have been cooperating on the project "Naturwissenschaften hautnah erleben" (Experience Natural Sciences Firsthand). This year, cooperation took place between a class of environmental technical assistants and grade 2d of the Schillerschule primary school.
Dr. Sandra Röck: Guide to Water Bodies in Baden-Württemberg
No other element is as ubiquitous and can be experienced in as many ways as water. Yet, the appreciation and awareness of water in our population and in western cultures in general frequently tends to be very limited.
Kerstin Schulte: Exhibition "WasserWissen - die wunderbare Welt des Wassers" (WaterKnowledge – The Wonderful World of Water)
"How much water does your body contain?" the young lady asks the group. The pupils around her gaze back in amazement. "Water? On my body? Maybe because I was sweating just now? Yes, perhaps," a girl replies pensively.
Wiltrud Betzler-Schellin: Network of Osnabrück Schools for a Living Hase
Living waters right in a big city? To some, this may seem unimaginable and certainly not feasible. In urban areas, rivers are increasingly evolving form their original, vital role in the creation of settlements and cities and turning into sewers…
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