Above : View the Flickr slideshow of local students participating in World Water Monitoring Day. Ana Tintocalis/KPBS .
A couple hundred students from San Diego County and Tijuana came together at La Jolla Cove for
World Water Monitoring Day
today. KPBS Reporter Ana Tintocalis has more.
The students came from three San Diego high schools and four of Tijuana's private schools.
Eleven-year-old Tania Reyes Ramirez is from Tijuana. She says she has a simple message.
Ramirez:
If we don't have that water, clean water, we can all die. We all die. And this would be worthless.
World Water Monitoring Day is a global event. Local organizers picked
La Jolla Cove
because its home to precious reef habitats, kelp forests, and hundreds of fish and bird species.
Sixteen-year-old Julien Van Wambeke-Long says he's glad this is a binational effort.
Van Wambeke-Long:
We may be two different nations but we have the same coastline. Baja California is connected to us.
World Water Monitoring Day is also observed by students in countries like China, Poland and Uganda.
Ana Tintocalis, KPBS News.
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