Water management issue becomes a focus in World Water Day celebration on Tuesday (22/Mar/2016) at University of Brawijaya (UB). The celebration organized by cross-level students Department of Watering Engineering, Faculty of Engineering. The commemoration organized in form of campaign around the campus elaborated with participants’ art performance.
“Indonesia is a maritime country. Indonesia also experienced a rainy season every year. It supposed to have many interesting water-resources based tourism to be created, yet why till present what can often be heard are dirty, polluted and smelly water,” said Favia Veroni, an event-coordinator of 2016 Water Day celebration.
The activity is enlivened by water-human action, a student dressed in shades of water in the face, and also the existence of expectation tree of which its leaf replica is made of carton-paper with people’s expectation-writing of many negative activities that give impacts in Indonesian waters in particular.
The campaign, according to Favia, is deliberately combined with art to make it more attractive, and values contained are conveyed. “Different with previous year which only campaigned by walking with writing on a carton-paper or campaign banner. Such campaign is truly have existed in previous years, yet for a concept to combine with art like this is just newly exist this year,” she added.
In order to commemorate World Water Day on 22 March annually, Watering Engineering students who gathered from many levels had a campaign all over UB campus to invite all the people particularly students who care into water. In addition, students also criticize water situation in Indonesia, particularly polluted rivers by human activities that less concerned about the environment.
The campaign starts in front of Faculty of Law building, then through Faculty of Sciences building, Faculty of Medicine and finish at Rectorate square. By the campaign, they hoped UB’s students not only know about World Water Day, but also aimed to be more concerned by saving water, since not entirely part of Indonesian area could obtain clean water. [reza/Vicky/Humas UB/trans. Denok]
