March
22
World
Water Day
International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as
a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater
and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater
resources. Each year, World Water Day highlights a specific
aspect of freshwater.
2017
World Water Day
In 2017, the theme is wastewater and the campaign, ‘Why waste
water?’, is about reducing and reusing wastewater.
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 6.3
requires us by 2030 to “improve water quality by
reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release
of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion
of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling
and safe reuse globally.”
Progress towards target 6.3 will also help achieve the SDGs
on health and well-being (SDG 3), safe water and sanitation
(SDG 6), affordable and clean energy (SDG 7), sustainable cities
and communities (SDG 11), life below water (SDG 14), and life
on land (SDG 15), among others
World Water
Day 2016
Better water, better jobs
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WORLD WATER
DAY 2015
Water and sustainable
development
World Water
Day 2014
Water and Energy
World Water
Day 2013
Water
Cooperation
World Water
Day 2012
Water and Food Security
World
Water Day 2011
Water for Cities: Responding to the Urban Challenge
World Water
Day Themes
2010: Clean Water for a Healthy World
2009: Shared Water - Shared Opportunities
2008: Sanitation
2007: Coping with Water Scarcity
2006: Water and Culture
2005: Water for Life
2004: Water and Disasters
2003: Water for the Future
2002: Water for Development
2001: Water and Health
2000: Water for the 21st Century
1999: Everyone Lives Downstream
1998: Groundwater: the Invisible Resource
1997: The World's Water, Is There Enough?
1996: Water for Thirsty Cities
1995: Women and Water
1994: Caring for Our Water Resources is Everyone's Business
Today, one
in two people on the planet live in a city. The world’s cities
are growing at an exceptional rate and urbanisation is a continuum.
The main reason they are growing is because of natural increase
in urban population, but also due to rural-to-urban migration
and reclassification of rural areas to urban areas.
93% of the
urbanization occurs in poor or developing countries, and nearly
40% of the world’s urban expansion is growing slums. Between
1990-2001 the world’s slums increased at a rate of 18 million
people a year, and is projected to increase to 27 million new
slum citizens per year between 2005-2020.
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