a dozen acquaintances sports clubs grouped within the Aedona associationTHE Public University of Navarra (UPNA)The Navarrese Institute of Sport and Physical Activity (INDAF) and the Navarrese Federation of Municipalities and Communes (FNMC) have joined the campaign so that the General Directorate of the Environment of the Provincial Executive began last summer with around thirty municipal councils to invite the population to limit the duration of each shower to 4 minutes to avoid wasting water and thus contribute to mitigating climate change.
SO, these clubs and the UPNA They will place stickers in their sports facilities recommending showering in 4 minutes maximum and will distribute infographics explaining this action to raise awareness of the need for responsible use of water in the domestic or sports environment, both for environment as well as for health. reasons.
The Minister of Rural Development and Environment of the Government of Navarra, José Mª Aierdi, presented today, in the facilities of the Larrabide stadium, these latest adhesions to the water saving campaign promoted by his department, as part of the European LIFE NAdapta project for adaptation to climate change.
And in this act he was accompanied by different representatives of sports and municipal entitiesas well as athletes who wanted to show their support for this initiative such as Aixa Wone, basketball player from Osés Ardoi in the Endesa League, or Josu Mendive, indoor footballer from Xota, among others.
Likewise, the director of Aedona, Adriana Redín, and other representatives of the entities that make up this association (the sports clubs or associations San Juan, Larraina, Amaya, Club Natación, Club Tenis, Oberena, Anaitasuana, Echavacoiz, Rochapea, Txantrea, Arenas de Tudela and Señorío de Zuasti), as well as the director of INDAF, Jorge Aguirre; the vice-rector of Culture and Diffusion of the UPNA, Begoña Pérez Eransus; the representative of the FNMC Juan Jesús Echaide or the director of the Climate Change Office of the Navarrese Executive, Fernando Señas.
THE campaign to limit water consumption in showers It started last summer, from the Environment and in technical collaboration with the public company Nasuvinsa, with the initial membership of 36 town halls of the Foral Community, which distributed a total of 24,000 among their neighborhoods. small 4-minute hourglasses to control the duration of a shower at home, according to the maximum duration recommended by the WHO. Given the interest expressed by various entities, Environment has now extended the proposal to the world of amateur sport, adapting the media and graphic image of the campaign to club facilities, with circular stickers that can be installed in their showers and explanatory infographics. [enlaces al final de la nota].
Councilor Aierdi, the athletes and representatives of the various participating sporting entities explained the environmental benefits that this implies, in a context of climate emergency with increasingly frequent periods of droughtwater savings which would involve limiting the duration of each shower to 4 minutes – compared to the currently estimated average of 10. This is a symbolic action, but with an effective result, which aims to represent the significant water savings that small changes in daily habits can bring.
The environmental challenge of drought
“The increase in frequency and severity of drought and water shortage is already one of the main environmental challenges of this century and it is important and urgent to address them from the climate strategies of the regional government, but also from small actions at the local scale, at closer to citizens, and from citizens. awareness and social mobilization, also in the field of sport,” said the Minister of the Environment.
In this sense, Aierdi underlined “the relevance that the water regulation strategiesa fundamental, public and rare good” and urged “to adopt measures of rational use, both in infrastructure or irrigation industries, as well as in actions as immediate and close to citizens as the water we use to at home or in sports facilities”, while thanking the commitment acquired by the sports clubs participating in the campaign.
The WHO estimates that The average time spent in the shower at home is 10 minutes and represents a waste of 200 liters of water each session. By reducing this time to the proposed 4 minutes, up to 120 liters of water can be saved and, in this way, if the entire population of Navarre took up the challenge, the savings could accumulate up to 78 million liters of water in every shower. the equivalent of 24 Olympic swimming pools.
THE Town halls wishing to join can complete the membership form to the shower water saving campaign with hourglasses for the municipalities and sign this letter of commitment, assuming the cost of the hourglasses and their distribution in their municipality. Other types of entities from the academic, professional or sports field can also join, who will only have to fill out the form to join the shower water saving campaign with stickers.
