March 22, World Water Day is celebrated. 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of World Water Day.

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World Water Day 2018
WHY IN NEWS?
Every year on March 22, World Water Day is celebrated. 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of World Water Day.
Theme: This year’s theme of World Water Day is ‘Nature for Water’and exploring nature-based solutions (NBS) to the water challenges that we are currently facing.
Campaign: The campaign which is being run by UN is being called ‘The answer is in nature’ and the motto is to raise awareness on how we nations together can save water by following nature based solutions.

About World Water Day:
In the year 1992, March 22 was first officially added in the schedule 21 of United Nations Conference on Environment and Development as World Water Day in the Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • The celebrations to mark world water day started from the year 1993. The aim of the day is to increase awareness among people about the importance, need and conservation of water.
  • The World Water Development Report is also released by the UN every year around World Water Day.

SDG:
The goals of World Water Day are in line with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 6, a program which targets bringing safe drinking water and clean sanitation to everyone around the world.

How The Day Is Celebrated?
The United Nations including all the member nations celebrate March 22 by implementing the UN recommendations as well as promoting the global water conservation through the real activities like promotion of clean water conservation, governments’ plan of action for water conservation and publishing critical reports that highlights the statistics and data on water.
The UN-Water is responsible for the selection of World Water Day theme every year, distribution of global messages as well as leading the UN agencies for celebrating the World Day for Water.

Need for conservation of water:
Today, around 1.9 billion people live in potentially severely water-scarce areas. By 2050, this could increase to around 3 billion people. This translates to an increase of nearly one and half times in just 30 years.

Sources: pib.

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