Water Agent from Water Agency Association (Slovenia)

Water Agency is a non-profit association which recognizes the importance of water in our lives and understands burning issue of endangering drinking water, both in our closer and wider area. Water Agency, which is active in the wider Danube Region, introduces innovative ways to control water consumption, used in schools for educational purposes. Association also has active impact on policy and lawmaking in the field of water resources and water management. Their slogan is “We are nothing without water”.

The basic idea of the project Water Agent is to establish international cooperation with partners and exchange information about water consumption. Goal of this cooperation is to draw public attention and achieve rational and responsible water consumption. Water agency first started with monitoring activities on water consumption and than expanded this activities into educational pilot project in schools. Later they developed educative toolkit, accessible to all schools. Target population are mostly school children (3.th grade of elementary school); who later become aware that water is not inexhaustible natural resource and is vital for survival of the human race and the entire planet. Early childhood education in the field of environmental protection is the foundation of education for sustainable development.

Main activities:

• measuring water consumption with water meter/counter which they fix on the tap. It is possible to measure water consumption in real time or in certain time period. This data can be written into an application, which can calculate their water consumption and present it graphically - one can get really good picture about water consumption and improvement and schools can compare their data and progress.
• water station: Water Agents has a mobile water station with all technical elements of water supply system which they present to children. 

So far these countries cooperate in the project: Slovenija, Croatia, Serbia, It´s planned to cooperate with West Balkan and also cities on the Danube river: Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Belgrade.

More about the project and their activities: http://www.vodnaagencija.org/vodna-agencija/