About Us
Macao Water Run aims at arousing public awareness of the importance of water conservation and improving the quality of life for people in China who have difficulties in accessing clean water. Participants carries bottled water to run through hilly trails, to experience the hardship and difficulties of travelling long distances in bringing water back home. We act and educate younger generation to save water in daily lives and how to achieve environmental substainability.
Sincere Simple Diligent Association is a non-profitable and voluntary organization that under the banner of patriotic love between our motherland – China and Macao. It aims at mobilizing people to serve voluntarily in the society, to educate and promote the 3 mottos of Chinese virtues: sincerity, simplicity and diligence by organizing different community projects, trainings and holding related researches.
About our Event
全世界85%的地區被水覆蓋;適合飲用的只有少於1%。據澳門自來水股份有限公司數據資料顯示,澳門市民每人每日平均用水量157公升;而食水短缺地方,人平均用水量為每日5-20公升。他們一天的用水量只等於我們刷牙時開水龍頭兩分鐘、沖廁所兩次。
全球人口共有68億,其中8億8千4百萬人沒有清潔食水,相當於每9個人中就1個人。因水危機或飲用混入污水的不乾淨水而導致的疾病,嚴重影響兒童的健康,甚至死亡;也因為要長途跋涉來尋找水源,許多的孩子無法上學。世界衛生組織公佈的報告稱,清潔食水的短缺和惡劣的衛生環境,每年36萬1,000名五歲以下兒童由於缺乏乾淨飲用水和衛生設施而死於腹瀉。全球疾病負擔幾乎有1/10與水有關,僅安全飲用水一項,每年便可防止140萬兒童死於腹瀉、50萬人死於瘧疾、86萬兒童死於營養不良等。2025年將接近20億人口將陷入嚴重缺乏食水。
“與水同行”活動為缺水國家兒童發聲,讓參加者透過負重路跑體驗缺水國家兒童每天走數公里路取水的艱辛,也加強了本澳市民對於水資源是得來不易而感到珍惜。凝聚澳門市民力量,一同關注缺水國度,孩子們所面臨的困境,透過活動籌得款項,幫助兒童獲得安全及乾淨的飲用水,使他們能健康長大、持續求學,改善生活。藉著推廣活動,讓澳門市民了解到乾淨的水源來得之不易,更不是唾手可得資源,藉由“了解、行動、分享”呼籲所有人共同關懷缺水國家弱勢市民的困境,應當更加珍惜水資源,提倡及教育下一代節約用水習慣。
近數十年來,全球正面臨著嚴峻的水資源危機,尤其淡水資源的分佈極不平衡以及全球人口總量的持續增加,淡水資源更為珍貴,特別在我國自然條件較為惡劣的農村貧困地區,當地居民依然存在著生產生活用水較為困難的問題。據了解,“廣西統一戰線同心水櫃”自今年8月份開展以來,經過調集統一戰線的資源和力量,為解決好廣西農村貧困家庭的飲水困難問題發揮積極作用。截止2018年10月中,還需新建或增加集中水櫃376處、家庭水櫃22,011處,總容量159萬立方米,以及8億元資金才能滿足水櫃的建設需求。為此,本次活動之報名費人民幣三萬元將捐贈到“廣西統一戰線同心水櫃”,力能所及地幫忙當地貧困缺水地區的群眾解決生活用水的問題。
All registration fees will go to water charity as well as projects that teach kids and improve their lives in rural areas. Our regular race tee is included in $300 reg fee. An extra vest with custom names will be included in $800 reg fee. We cooperate with local brand @typasports to produce our tees and vests with plastic-recycle materials, and all made in Macao.