Dear Naresh, Today is World Water Day! Ellen Gustafson and I are happy to announce that Food Tank is partnering with the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition (BCFN) over the coming year. Today, BCFN is offering our newsletter subscribers a free download of their new report, The Water We Eat, in celebration of World Water Day!  According to The Water We Eat, each of us consumes more than 3,400 liters of virtual water each day—this is the water hidden in the products we buy and the food we eat and it can vary significantly. What we eat, how we produce food, and how much food we waste can all impact the size of our water footprint. The Water We Eat (downloadable now for free by clicking HERE), highlights, for example, how diets rich in fruits, vegetables, and cereals make it possible to significantly reduce virtual water consumption. In addition, BCFN is featuring on its site, and the United Nations World Water Day website, a special video message prepared in collaboration with Angela Morelli, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader 2012. Here are 7 other free World Water Day tools for you to check out: 1. On Pinterest, Food Tank developed 24 images about ways each of us can reduce water waste. Please check them out (and feel free to share them) by clicking HERE. 2. Drop In the Bucket put together this great short video for YouTube offering powerful facts about water. 3. UN World Water Day did a series of great animations and educational materials to celebrate World Water Day. 4. For great research and advocacy campaigns about food and water all year long see the Food and Water Watch website. 5. For more information about international water policy check out the Global Water Policy Project. 6. The Center for Investigative Reporting offers these six cool infographics about food and water. 7. And several of the CGIAR centers provide great research and tools, including the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Finally, Food Tank is trying to draw as much attention as possible to ways we can all help reduce water waste this World Water Day. Check out our columns today in The Miami Herald, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the New Jersey Star-Ledger, Alaska's Anchorage Daily News, California's San Jose Mercury News and Oakland Tribune, the Kansas City Star, Kentucky's Herald-Leader, Georgia's Savannah Morning News, the Daily Herald (Illinois), AlterNet, the Huffington Post, and many more. What resources for World Water Day do you recommend? What are you doing to reduce water waste this year? Send me an email at danielle@foodtank.org or reply to this newsletter!     All the Best, Danielle Nierenberg Co-Founder, Food Tank: The Food Think Tank www.FoodTank.org Please connect with us on Facebook,  Twitter, and Pinterest           Join Food Tank HERE. News Highlights:             World Water Day 2013: Cooperation and Collaboration for the Future of Food Although about 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered in water, only 0.001 percent of that is available for human consumption. Seventy percent of water is used in agriculture, and as water supplies face mounting pressures from a growing population, climate change, and an already troubled food system, critical action on water security has become necessary. Read more...           Top 4 Water Conservation Strategies for Policymakers As part of supporting citizens’ livelihoods and wellbeing, governments and policymakers have a huge role to play in sustainable water use, especially when it comes to supporting water-saving solutions for farmers. Read more...               Tony Allan, Water Policy Innovator How much water is in your food? More than you might think. Tony Allan, a professor at King's College London, won the Stockholm Water Prize in 2008 for his concept of virtual water. Read more to find out how food and water policy are connected. Read more...           Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty, and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys. In a TED talk he explains how his community is desperate for nutritional food and why he thinks urban gardening is the solution. Read more...               Free Download: The Water We Eat Download for free the exclusive report from the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition called The Water We Eat by Marta Antonelli and Francesca Greco, and learn more about water consumption in the video Virtual Water by Angela Morelli.           Green Communities: A Future Beyond Rural and Urban Is humanity inevitably headed towards a future like the slums of Mumbai or Nairobi? John Coonrod, PhD, Executive Vice President of the Hunger Project discusses how a future that transcends the historic divides of poverty vs. affluence and urban vs. rural is possible. Read more...               Food Hero Series: Norma Flores López, Champion for Child Farmworkers Norma Flores López, a child of migrant farmworkers, spent her youth working on farms, now she helps child farmworkers by giving them the voice through the Children in the Fields Campaign so that they need to get out of the fields and succeed in school. Read more...