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Wednesday, March 23, 2005

World Water Day

Was looking for something on the net today so flipped over to Google to do a search and lo and behold, they had altered the Google so that some of letters looked like they were half full of water. Wondered what was up - I mean Google usually enhances their logo for special days like St. Patty's Day, Christmas etc., but I couldn't think of anything special about March 22nd (Google is based in the US - day behind us here...)

So, by moving my cursor over their logo Google - they wonderfully explained what it was about: World Water Day! Never heard of it before, but hey, a worthwhile cause - I mean water's important - as someone living in drought stricken Sydney should understand.

How wonderful is that on World Water Day, the aforementioned drought stricken Sydney was under a severe weather warning and was expecting up to 100mm of rain? (Well, it's wonderful from a water conservation standpoint - but not so wonderful while standing in the pouring rain, being whipped around by galeforce winds while waiting for a bus because the ferries have been cancelled due to the huge swell from the storm... but I digress..)

Too bad only 13mm of the 80mm of actual rainfall in Sydney actually fell in the city's reservoirs. Apparently city planners thought it would a good idea to put the city's dam/catchment in an area that gets very little rain. (As an aside - most Australians know this, and strangely, either laugh or are incredibly blase about it. Bizarre.)

Still, World Water Day is a great idea. Just don't ask an Australian - or God forbid a city planner - to organize it - I'm not sure they really get it....

1 Comments:

  • I noticed the World Water Day logo at Google, too! (I actually thought they were dying blue Easter eggs early or something, until I clicked on the image file and read 'WaterDay' in the file name. Duh. I also figured out that I could click on the actual logo and read about the "day", too.)

    After seeing another blogger friend make a blogpost dedicated to the St. Patrick's Day Google logo, then seeing the WWD one I became so intrigued (sad, I know) that I actually GOOGLED for a list of ALL the potential days of the Google year. LOL What I found was this list of Google Holiday Logos (so far).

    I wish they would list the upcoming ones, too, so I could be sure to tune in on the appropriate days. (They seem to pick different random birthdays and what-not each year, for example)
    I hate to think I might miss a Google-show, don't you? ;)

    By Blogger Mary, at 6:38 PM  

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