World water day

The World Water Day is every year since 1993 on 22 March and will be since 2003 by UN-Water organized. It was proposed in Agenda 21 of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro and adopted by the UN General Assembly in a resolution on December 22, 1992. It has grown in importance considerably since it was first executed.

The UN invites its member states to use this day to introduce UN recommendations and to promote concrete actions in their countries. Every year one of the many UN agencies dealing with the issue of water takes the lead in promoting and coordinating international actions for World Water Day.

World Water Day 2005 was headed by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) and marked the beginning of the second UN decade "Water for Life" (2005-2015) .

In addition to the UN member states, some non-governmental organizations that fight for clean water and water protection have also used World Water Day to draw public attention to the critical water issues of our time. Since 1997, every three years, thousands have followed the call of the World Water Council to participate in a World Water Forum during the week of World Water Day. Participating groups and organizations particularly emphasize points such as the fact that one billion people do not have access to safe and clean drinking water , or that in many cases gender plays a role in water access. This means that women within families are burdened with the duty to go to great lengths to get the drinking water.

Every two years in Germany on World Water Day, the river landscape of the year is chosen, and in 2011 the water body type of the year was declared for the first time .

In 2018, the Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany (BUND) called for a drastic reduction in microplastic inputs into wastewater .

subjects

The memorial and action day has a different motto every year (selection):

• 2010: water quality
• 2011: Water for Cities - Responding to the Urban Challenge
• 2012: Food Security and Water
• 2013: water and collaboration .
• 2014: water and energy
• 2015: water and sustainable development
• 2016: water and jobs
• 2017: Wastewater - the unused resource
• 2018: Managing water naturally
• 2019: Leaving no one behind - water and sanitation for all
• 2020: water and climate change

Publications

• Thomas Burian, Dirk Eden: Ilz - river landscape of the years 2002/3: the black pearl , World Water Day March 22, 2004, Wasserwirtschaftsamt Niederbayern (administrative district) t, Passau 2004, OCLC 76780989 ( Ilz - the "black pearl of the Bavarian Forest" , like which Ilz is also called because of its blackish color, was the river landscape of the years 2002/2003).

Web links

Commons : World Water Day  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Jeremy Allouche, Water nationalism - an explanation of the past and present conflicts in Central Asia, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent , Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales, Genève 2004, (online dissertation (sc. Pol) University of Geneva 2004, 398 Pages, illustrated, 30 cm, Thèse No. 699, Directeur de thèse: Mohammad-Reza Djalili full text online PDF, free of charge, 404 p., 2.52 MB).
• International Decade for Action, Water for Life, 2005–2015. United Nations General Assembly Resolution A / RES / 58/217 of 9 February 2004 (PDF)
• Observance of World Day for Water (United Nations General Assembly Resolution, A / RES / 47/193, December 22, 1992)
• Current page of UNESCO on World Water Day (German)
• The 2nd United Nations World Water Development Report: "Water, a shared responsibility"  ( page no longer available )
• Ralph Ahrens, The Oil of the 21st Century - Doing Business with Water ( Deutschlandfunk , September 21, 2004)
• Oxygen is becoming scarce at the bottom of the lake - information from the Federal Office for the Environment (Switzerland; 2020)

See also

• UN water
• World Water Development Report , the World Water Forum , World Water Council , water consumption

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Global wastewater problem Microplastics overwhelm sewage treatment plants. Solutions are less plastic consumption and environmentally friendly textile production In: bund.net , March 21, 2018, accessed on March 22, 2018.
2. ^ Page of the BMU on World Water Day