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Thursday, March 22, 2012

World Water Day

There are 7 billion people to feed on the planet today and another 2 billion are expected to join by 2050. Statistics say that each of us drinks from 2 to 4 litres of water every day, however most of the water we ‘drink’ is embedded in the food we eat: producing 1 kilo of beef for example consumes 15,000 litres of water while 1 kilo of wheat ’drinks up’ 1,500 litres.

When a billion people in the world already live in chronic hunger and water resources are under pressure we cannot pretend the problem is ‘elsewhere’. Coping with population growth and ensuring access to nutritious food to everyone call for a series of actions we can all help with:
follow a healthier, sustainable diet;
consume less water-intensive products;
reduce the scandalous food wastage: 30% of the food produced worldwide is never eaten and the water used to produce it is definitively lost!
produce more food, of better quality, with less water.

At all steps of the supply chain, from producers to consumers, actions can be taken to save water and ensure food for all.

And you? Do you know how much water you actually consume every day? How can you change your diet and reduce your water footprint?
Join the world to celebrate world water day

Friday, March 9, 2012

EHORECON to organise refresher programme for staff

Wednesday, 29 February 2012

The Environmental Health Officers Registration Council of Nigeria (EHORECON) will in April, this year organise refresher training programme for its staff on litigation and environmental health.
The Registrar of the council, Mr Augustine Ebisike, who disclosed this recently in Abuja, said the training is aimed at improving the effectiveness of the staff.

“We have decided to organise refresher training programme for our workers nationwide in April in Nasarawa state. We believe that the training will improve the effectiveness and efficiency of our workers,” he said.
The registrar said that four judges would serve as resource persons to discuss legal issues in environmental health, saying “The judges will train our staff on how to organise themselves when cases have to go to court.”

Ebisike said that the council would use the opportunity to update participants on the latest developments in environment health law.
“The rules are changing; there are so many laws coming up; we need to know these laws, and how to apply them,” he said.

The registrar said that the council is also mandated to license and inspect catering establishments in local government areas.
According to him, the council plans to organise a seperate training programme for its staff on the hazards in preparing food by catering establishments.
He urged Nigerians to take measures to prevent the outbreak of the diseases in the country saying “health is wealth”.

“We are spending too much money treating symptoms of diseases; more than 70 per cent of the diseases ravaging the people are preventable,” he said. (NAN)