Water is the most precious resource on our planet, and World Water Day is celebrated annually on March 22nd to raise awareness about the importance of water conservation and management. In 2023, the theme for World Water Day is "Accelerating change," highlighting the urgent need to address the impact of dysfunction throughout the water cycle and to accelerate change to solve the water and sanitation crisis. The global campaign is called 'Be the Change', and it encourages people to take action in their own lives and to change the way they use, consume and manage water.
The Water Action Agenda, a main outcome of the UN 2023 Water Conference, is "a collection of voluntary commitments from governments, companies, organizations, institutions, coalitions and members of the public, designed to deliver rapid progress on internationally-agreed water and sanitation targets, most notably Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6): water and sanitation for all by 2030.
Currently, the world is seriously off track on SDG 6. The latest data show that governments must work on average four times faster to meet this goal on time. Dysfunction throughout the water cycle is undermining progress on all major global issues, from health to hunger, gender equality to jobs, education to industry, and disasters to peace. "
Everyone can play a part to achieve rapid and transformative change. Every single action, no matter how small it is, will make a difference.
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