World Water Day 2012 at La Minilla

PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS ABOUT WATER

      Proverbs, saying and riddles express a truth based on common sense and are used throughout the world.  Because everything depends on water, they use water to teach a truth. The importance of water flow becomes clear in our language and sayings.

      The following list shows several sayings which use water. These English proverbs that include references to different forms of water describe both good and bad situations.

QUOTES AND SET PHRASES ABOUT WATER

Water is essential for all dimensions of life. Over the past few decades, use of water has increased, and in many places water availability is falling to crisis levels. More than eighty countries, with forty per cent of the world’s population, are already facing water shortages, while by year 2020 the world’s population will double. The costs of water infrastructure have risen dramatically. The quality of water in rivers and underground has deteriorated, due to pollution by waste and contaminants from cities, industry and agriculture. Ecosystems are being destroyed, sometimes permanently. Over one billion people lack safe water, and three billion lack sanitation; eighty per cent of infectious diseases are waterborne, killing millions of children each year.

THE PORT OF LAS PALMAS A THREE CONTINENT PLATFORM FOR ALL KIND OF TRAFFIC

In the XV century the famous navigator Christopher Columbus used Gran Canaria Island as a base for ship repairs and as his last stop in Europe before sailing to the New World. Since its foundation in 1478 at a time when Spain extended it rule over the Canary Islands, Las Palmas enjoyed a privileged role as a support base for maritime expeditions across the Atlantic Ocean and beyond.