Gwangju City Holds the 33rd World Water Day Ceremony and Gyeongancheon Clean Day

Gwangju City, Gyeonggi Province (Mayor Bang Se-hwan) held the '33rd World Water Day' commemorative event at Cheongseok Park on the 20th, attended by about 500 citizens including Mayor Bang Se-hwan of Gwangju, Heo Kyung-haeng, Chairman of the Gwangju City Council, and Yoon Deok-hee, Director of the Gyeonggi Provincial Water Resources Headquarters.

Gwangju City held the '33rd World Water Day' commemorative event at Cheongseok Park on the 20th, with about 500 citizens in attendance to mark World Water Day. Photo by Gyeonggi Gwangju City

At the event, 'Clean Water Guardians of Our Neighborhood' were appointed to instill pride in the motto "We protect the streams in our neighborhood," and through the World Water Day commemorative performance, they pledged to continue conservation activities to secure clean and safe water resources.

Mayor Bang Se-hwan of Gwangju stated, "While preserving Gyeongan Stream, the water source for 26 million citizens in the metropolitan area, we will lead a sustainable community model through the relaxation of overlapping regulations."

After the ceremony, participants were divided into four groups and conducted a Clean Day activity, collecting trash discarded along both banks of the upper and lower reaches of Gyeongan Stream starting from Cheongseok Park.

Meanwhile, 'World Water Day' is a commemorative day established and proclaimed by the UN since 1993 to raise awareness of the importance of water and to promote international cooperation on water scarcity.

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