NEWS
WORLD PLUMBING DAY CELEBRATION IN INDIA - 2010
Plumbing fraternity in India celebrated the first World Plumbing Day, with great enthusiasm and fervour. Several activities took place across the country and the credit goes to an aggressive campaign of IPA, for creating much-needed awareness about better plumbing practices and its pivotal role in better health, hygiene and environment besides better management of energy and of course, water!
GRADE SCHOOL STUDENTS LEARN THE VALUE OF PLUMBING
On March 11, the people all over the globe celebrated the inaugural World Plumbing Day, established by the World Plumbing Council as a means of promoting the plumbing industry’s vital work on behalf of the planet and its people.
The event brought worldwide attention to plumbing industry work protecting the public’s health and safety and promoting environmental sustainability, with IAPMO joining the cause through special promotions and an elementary school education program.
STUDENTS DISCOVER THE IMPORTANCE OF PLUMBING
In celebration of World Plumbing Day, Gaby Davis, IAPMO Sr. Director of Worldwide Operations, attended the Junior Kinder class at Brethren in Christ Community Preschool in Upland, CA, and the First Grade class at Floyd M. Stork Elementary in Alta Loma, CA, to introduce the students to the many ways in which plumbers make their schools and homes safe and healthy every day.
After a short presentation, the children took part in the activity sheets that IAPMO prepared. The Junior Kinder class colored and completed a pipe maze, while the First Grade class did the pipe maze and a word search of plumbing terms. All kids were given a World Plumbing Day sticker and lapel pin and hung a World Plumbing Day sticker in their classrooms.
STUDENTS IN PUNE, INDIA CELEBRATE WORLD PLUMBING DAY
Over 300 students from Indira International School in Pune, India, celebrated World Plumbing Day on March 11.
Subhash Deshpande and Pratima Singh of IAPMO India visited the school to instruct the children about the importance of plumbing. The children drew and colored posters depicting the importance of water, sanitation and health.
LOUISIANA DECLARES MARCH 11 "WORLD PLUMBING DAY"
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has signed a proclamation declaring March 11, 2010 as World Plumbing Day, to recognize "the role which the plumbing industry plays in relation to health through the provision of safe water and sanitation," and the "environmental role of the industry in water conservation, energy efficiency, and the increasing use of renewable resources."
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals and the Louisiana Workforce Commission also took part in this proclamation.
GREEN PLUMBERS USA DEVELOP WORLD PLUMBING DAY WIDGET
World Plumbing Council members Green Plumbers USA have developed a widget with important messages about World Plumbing Day. This widget, which is being widely promoted through websites and social networking forums, is seen as a powerful way of promoting the World Plumbing Day message. The widget can be accessed at www.greenplumbersusa.com/wpd-widget.
INDIAN PLUMBING ASSOCIATION PROMOTES WORLD PLUMBING DAY
 The Indian Plumbing Association, as part of a comprehensive programme of
acitivities to promote the first World Plumbing Day on 11 March 2010, has
produced and designed a poster which is to be used widely in India
to draw attention to this new important date in the plumbing industry calendar.
MESSE FRANKFURT SUPPORTS WORLD PLUMBING DAY
Statement by Dr. Peters about the new World Plumbing Day.
SCOTTISH SCHOOL PUPILS DESIGN WORLD PLUMBING DAY POSTERS
Eight-year old school pupils at a school in East Lothian, Scotland, recently designed posters highlighting the first ever World Plumbing Day which will take place on 11 March 2010.
MESSAGE FROM WORLD PLUMBING COUNCIL
As many of you may have already learned, the World Plumbing Council has chosen to create World Plumbing Day, to be celebrated on 11 March each year. The inaugural event will take place in 2010 and will be formally announced at a press conference in Beijing, China.
This annual event has been established to help the general public better understand the vital role the plumbing industry plays in protecting public health and safety, the extent to which it helps limit mankind’s environmental footprint and other important work performed by contractors, inspectors, installers, engineers, manufacturers and academicians that is often taken for granted.
As a means of promoting World Plumbing Day worldwide, the WPC will provide its member organizations, as well as any other parties interested in promoting the globally important role of plumbing, with fact sheets and other promotional information to encourage these organizations to plan activities celebrating World Plumbing Day in their own countries. It is my pleasure to advise you that a special website will be operational from 1 January 2010 and will contain various items that we have developed to assist in the planning for World Plumbing Day 2010. The website can be found at www.worldplumbingday.org
The information on the website has been designed so that it can be reproduced, amended, supplemented — basically anything the organization can do to run with it on their own — as we lead up to 11 March each year. We hope to see press conferences, speeches before legislative bodies, city council resolutions, special events, etc. recognizing World Plumbing Day and illuminating the often-unsung work of the plumbing industry in preventing the spread of disease and preserving our planet’s natural resources, especially its most important resource, potable water.
We want to encourage plumbing organizations around the world to put out their own press releases to their industry trade press, as we anticipate it will be more effective to have the member organizations themselves describe their own plans to celebrate World Plumbing Day than for the WPC to do so. Included on the website are two fact sheets: one on the plumbing industry’s role in world health, the other on its role in environmental conservation. We have also included a list of suggested activities that could be undertaken by organizations wishing to promote the occasion. Moving forward, the WPC plans to develop other tools to help industry organizations around the world focus attention on World Plumbing Day in future years.
We recognize that we have not built in much lead-time in advance of 11 March for this inaugural event, but the intent is next year we will post documents and information on the World Plumbing Day Website far in advance of 11 March 2011. The website will include a listing of activities arranged to celebrate the Day throughout the world. For future years, we encourage you to start planning 6-8 months prior to the occasion. The Website is expected to be up and running by 1 January 2010.
World Plumbing Day is all about raising public awareness of the importance of our industry and I very much hope that the news media in every country in which WPC is currently represented will contain some coverage of the industry on or shortly after 11 March 2010. WPC intends to recognize organizations that are most successful and most innovative in their approach to World Plumbing Day.
I really hope I can count on your assistance in promoting this worthwhile and long overdue recognition of our industry’s important contributions to humankind.
Yours sincerely,
Robert Burgon |
