Jordan Times
Sunday, April 18, 1999
| Celebrate Earth Day: U.S. Embassy programme focuses on water conservation |
| AMMAN (J.T.) — The American
Centre in Amman will celebrate Earth Day 1999 on Monday, April 19, at the U.S. Embassy in
Abdoun. This year's celebration is dedicated to water awareness and conservation and
highlights every individual's responsibility to protect water resources. Earth Day `99 will host the premier of an educational puppet show entitled “A Drop of Water!!!,” an Arabic performance produced and presented by the Performing Arts Centre of the Noor Al Hussein Foundation. Earth Day `99 will also feature an Arabic language video produced by the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature on water resources and practices in Jordan. The day's activities will also include displays and exhibits about water conservation and usage mounted by the RSCN, the Jordan Environmental Society, the Friends of the Environmental Sociey and the Jordan Royal Ecological Diving Centre. Visitors will also be able to access Internet sites and view videos on environmental issues. Earth Day activities will be held in the USIS auditorium and exhibit halls and will be open to the public from 9:00 p.m. |