Ms Melissa Lim, Associate Librarian at National Library Board, invited Earth Society to be part of their Green Market: World Water Day Event held at Chua Chu Kang Library. NLB requested us to conduct an online talk on 20 Mar on the topic of “Climate change and Saving water”. Thus, we designed a “Climate Change, Water Shortage and Ways to save water” talk for the event.

NLB published the event in Eventbrite and invited library members to attend the online event. (https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/green-market-climate-change-water-shortage-and-ways-to-save-water-registration-274539935337 )

On 20 Mar, Earth Society joined Ms Sarannya Anil (another Associate Librarian) via Zoom at 2.45 pm. We conducted a “Climate Change, Water Shortage and Ways to save water” talk from 3 pm to 4 pm for about 50 participants.

We presented on Climate change causing water shortage in the world. We showed PUB’s ‘5 tips to save 140 lts of water per day’. We introduced the concept of Water Footprint to the participants and showed them how to use a Water Footprint Calculator. We also showed that an ave Singaporean uses 150 lts of water at home per day (for bathing, washing etc). Going Veg for 1 day will save 1610 lts of water, equivalent to saving 10 days of water we can use at home.

The participants listened to the talk attentively and participated in the Q&A after the talk.

NLB recorded the online presentation and placed it in their website.

NLB Green Market “Climate Change, Water Shortage and Ways to save water” talk :

https://nlb.ap.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=52c63487-7e2a-41b3-a4fd-ae7c00380aac

We are glad that NLB is now actively seeking out NGOs to promote green messages in the Library. We hope that the green messages will spread far and wide.