14 DAY TRIAL // As many of those who are constantly striving to raise awareness with respect to the environment probably already know, the biggest issue in this particular research field is not necessarily coming up with highly innovative solutions and technologies, but being able to educate people into paying closer attention to the natural world.
Should a nation wish to have highly esteemed environmental scientists and researchers, then it must take time and invest in their upbringing and education.
This is why the Silver Town School in Israel decided that it was high time for it to go green and get its pupils involved in the “Youth Drinks Water and Knowledge” competition sponsored by the Cleantech group, which they won thanks to the system for water reclamation they designed.
Thus, the children successfully managed in using biological and chemical treatments to clean up wastewater coming from homes and business.
As israelnewtech.com reports, the man behind “Youth Drinks Water and Knowledge” is Dr. Amnon Shefi, whose opinion is that this particular competition is highly entertaining and engaging.
He believes that, in the field of environmental studies – as is the case with all other sciences – new things are discovered quite often and one needs to be very passionate about this topic to be able to keep up.
Thus, his opinion is that children need to be made aware of this status quo at a very early age, so that they can grow up having a full and correct understanding of the natural world and of how they can carry on with their living without hurting it.
Cleantech's program for educating children has been active for four years now, and it presently receiving support from Israel's Ministry of Education, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labour, and Water Authority. Apparently, roughly 1,000 kids have taken part in the program so far.
Adi Yefet Beeri, an employee of Israel NewTech, argues that getting children involved in such programs is crucial because “the industry needs to understand that investing in the next generation is for the benefit of our generation – we need more water engineers and Cleantech professionals.”
All in all, we cannot help but agree with the idea that nations world-wide need to start investing time and money in fostering environmental-awareness in their children, especially given the fact that most young people nowadays seem much more preoccupied making a career in economics, computer sciences and the like.