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News that the Tuvalu Red Cross started the fund-raising of earthquake revival support money for Japan and New Zealand from the Tuvalu whole land was broadcast by radio Tuvalu on 6th of April, 2011.
The Red Cross volunteer staffs raise money with the empty can for about one month from the same day to the end of this month in not only Funafuti in the capital but also all the outer islands.
Tuvalu is very low above sea level, and seawater spring up from ground everywhere when it is the King Tide in Funafuti. In a word, it has been that the surface of the sea risen than ground. That why this large earthquake, especially the tsunami damage in Japan must make people in Tuvalu remember fear simultaneously sorrow.

March 22 is "the World Water Day." This is the one that was recommended in the action plan (agenda 21) for the 21st century adopted by Earth Convention (The venue: Brazil) in 1992, and enacted in the United Nations General Assembly of the age. It is the day when it thinks about "Water" as the resource on the world scale.
The water section in the public works bureau is centered in Tuvalu, and various events concerning water like the examination of water quality of water tanks for household use and workshops about water for students etc.
On the 22nd of March 2011, the very day of World Water Day, the Expo was hold in the meeting space of capital Funafuti. At the Expo, the result of examination of water tank’s quality was reported and also some organization to do the approach related to water introduces their activities to the invited students from two elementary schools, secondary schools in Funafuti, and the South Pacific university Tuvalu branch schools.