To celebrate the world water Day this Monday the 22nd, the State Company of Water and Sewage (Cedae) released the Cedae Program for Environmental Education in schools. The promotion of educative projects that are focused on the environment was one of the commitments of Rio de Janeiro’s victorious candidature for the 2016 Olympic Games. The world water Day was created by the United Nations Organization (UNO) in 1992. The objective of Cedae’s program is to make children aware at a young age about the need to use water in a rational and economic way. “Initiatives like this encourage young people to develop habits that preserve the environment. The rational use of water is one of the main points of the environmental project for the Rio 2016 Games” said the project manager for the Rio 2016 Committee, Alexandre Techima. The launch of the program featured the presence of Cedae president Wagner Victer and The first lady of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Adriana Ancelmo. In the audience tens of children from Rio Outreach project, which promotes social inclusion of poor young people. In order to reach and create awareness in such a young audience Cedae relied on two important tools: the animated film “The route of the waters”, which shows the course of the water since its capture at the sources until it reaches the taps and the comic book “ Caring for our planet”.