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Intermunicipal Consortium of Piracicaba, Capivari and Jundiai River Basins (Consorcio PCJ) is an association of private non-profit organizations composed of municipalities and private companies, whose mission is to recover the water sources of its area of coverage. The base of the organization's work lies in the awareness of all sectors of society about the problems of the region's water resources, planning and promoting the management of water resources to overcome personal and political-partisan differences, peculiar to intermunicipal articulations and between segments. The integration of municipalities and companies and the search for global solutions have marked its performance. Founded on October 13, 1989, the Consortium works with technical and financial independence. The organization collects and applies resources in environmental programs, among them, Environmental Education Program.
The main purpose of the Program is promoting and sensitizing the regional community to the issue of water availability in the region, encouraging environmental education actions aimed at recovery and conservation of the environment, together with teachers, students, members of organized civil society and the community in general. The Program has a differentiated methodology, employing language that is accessible to the target public and environmental studies, through the spirit of networking, fostering regional dialogue and exchange of experiences. For over 25 years, the Program has operated with the purpose and great social challenge to encourage local multipliers of hydrographic basins to organize the financial structures and resources to solve their own environmental problems, that is, to enable the community to actively participate in the Water management related subjects, collaborating with the organization to find solutions for local problems.
The primary goal of the plan which we wish to highlight is the intensification and expansion of Environmental Education actions and activities. Throughout the year these activities sensitize society and political leaders on the importance of community awareness on the Management of Water Resources and Environment. Developed in 1994, the project has achieved the milestone of approximately 4 million participants directly and indirectly, among them children, youths and adults.
The team responsible for the Program is made up of specialists in water resources, with experience in environmental education. From the beginning of the Program, it was possible to organize a network of multiplier agents, which help the PCJ Consortium team to multiply the knowledge acquired during the year, training more than 8 thousand educators and about 150 thousand students in the region on water issues. Besides accessible language to the target public and studies of the environment, through the spirit of networking, fostering regional dialogue and exchange of experiences among all associated municipalities, several other actions have also been carried out, among them the creation of workshops, seminars, lectures, educational gifts, games, among others, all of which have been successful because we always seek to encourage the participation and creation of multi and interdisciplinary groups among teachers and multiplication agents, which guarantee a good exchange of experiences among all the project participants.
The main challenge is to prepare and make today's children, who will be the managers of tomorrow, "act locally and think globally" through the planning of joint actions among the various sectors and segments of society that are focused on the management and preservation of water resources.
The PCJ basins have low water availability (less than 1,000 m3 / people per year), which implies the need for large investments in environmental education, water losses, universalization of basic sanitation, protection and reforestation of areas of springs and public water supply springs, among other actions that guarantee water in quantity and quality to all. It is in this sense that Consorcio PCJ Environmental Education Program in Water Management seeks to contribute, through education for sustainable development, focused on the integrated management of water resources. Through the Program, legislation and tools for the structuring of environmental education projects aimed at the management of water resources were implemented in the participating municipalities. Among the solutions found by each municipality, we can mention the elaboration of curricular guidelines of environmental education in the schools of the municipal network, the creation of Municipal Environmental Education Policy, the approval of laws aimed at combating water waste and encouraging the reuse and use of rainwater, and payment for environmental services projects.
In 2020, the Program is developing actions to spread awareness of the 2030 agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals. We aim to impact about 1000 participants, who will in turn spread their knowledge and skills to thousands of people in the Piracicaba, Capivari and Jundiai river basins (PCJ Basins). This action will accelerate SDG implementation because will mobilize people and share knowledge to promote sustainable development through environmental education. Consorcio PCJ are organizing events and e-learning through the platform "School of Water and Sanitation" - https://escola.agua.org.br.
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