Inaugural World Plumbing Day

World Plumbing Day is March 11.

The first-ever World Plumbing Day is to be celebrated on 11 March 2010, according to World Plumbing Council (WPC) chairman Robert Burgon. Details of the inaugural event were announced at the WPC’s annual meeting held in Centurion, South Africa in October 2009.

With the theme ‘Plumbing – Vital to Global Health’, plumbing organisations throughout the world will be invited to undertake a range of activities with the aim of raising awareness of the important role played by today’s plumbing industry.

“There are international days for all sorts of causes, and their purpose is always about awareness raising,” said Burgon. “World Plumbing Day is no different, and we simply want to make more and more people realise that plumbing is a significant industry and a major contributor to public health and the environment.

“This year we have chosen the theme ‘Plumbing – Vital to Global Health’ with the intention being that we highlight just how much our industry contributes to both the health of our people and the health of our planet.” The aim is to involve local communities to spread the word, which Burgon feels is the only way to bring about the required results.

“Our idea is that WPC members and indeed any organisation or individual in the global plumbing industry takes the opportunity to do something in their country or even their city as a way of alerting their fellow citizens to our industry. The more local activity there is, the more chance we have of the message being seen and understood.

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“It is not just about fixing pipes; it is plumbing as a whole of system solution that is the message being touted. World Plumbing Day is about the value of sanitation. I believe that, in developed countries, effective sanitation is usually taken for granted – until something goes wrong,” says Burgon.

“In developing countries where there is often no effective sanitation, then there is a lack of awareness of just how significant even basic sanitation could be. We should never miss the chance, wherever we might be, to stress the importance of sanitation and the role which our industry plays in the design, installation and maintenance of such systems.”

For more information visit www.worldplumbingday.org