World Water Day also referred to, as ‘World Day for Water’ is a regionally and globally recognised annual event to help focus on water, its development and conservation and implementation of recommendations of Agenda 21. World Water Day is traditionally observed on 22nd March each year. The SOPAC Community Lifelines Programme has coordinated World Water Day Campaigns for past several years and has recently partnered with Live and Learn Environmental Education, a non-government, non-profit organization. WWD campaigns have included the development and distribution of publication material, organising regional competitions, conducting teacher training forums and marking the day with a public awareness event.
on 22 March under the leadership of United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO).
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| 2008 Sanitation | United Nations General Assembly | | The Pacific regional theme is Sanitation for Healthy Pacific Communities. Globally the UN Water group organises the World Water Day on 22 March since declared by the UN General Assembly in 1992. The World Water Day launch for the Pacific will be held in Fiji. Support will be provided to Pacific Island Countries to organise media campaigns, training workshops for students and teachers and educational awareness materials on sanitation and hygiene.
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| 2007 Coping with Water Scarcity | The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) | | This year's theme highlights the increasing significance of water scarcity worldwide and the need for increased integration and cooperation to ensure sustainable, efficient and equitable management of scarce water resources, both at international and local levels. Globally it is organised by: The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) on behalf of UN Water.
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| 2006 WATER AND CULTURE | United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) | | Each year, a different UN agency is selected to coordinate events related to freshwater resources. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) will guide World Water Day under the theme ‘Water and Culture’.
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| 2005 WATER FOR LIFE | United Nations General Assembly | | The theme for this year’s World Water Day challenges us to look at “Water for life�. The United Nations General Assembly at its 58th session in December 2003 proclaimed the years 2005-2015 as the international “Water for Life Decade�. The decade sets the world’s goals on a “greater focus on water related issues, striving to ensure the participation of women in water related development efforts and further cooperation at all levels to achieve water-related targets of the Millennium Development Goals�.
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| 2004 Water and Disasters | World Meteorological Organization (WMO) & International Strategy for Disaster Reduction(ISDR) | | Weather, climate and water resources can have a devastating impact on socio-economic development and on the well-being of humankind. According to the WMO weather and climate-related extreme events, account for nearly 75 per cent of all disasters.....
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| 2003 Water for the Future | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) | | Lack of access to water for drinking, hygiene and food security inflicts enormous hardship on more than a billion members of the human family , said United Nations Secretary-General? Kofi Annan. Water is likely to become a growing source of tension and fierce competition between nations, if present trends continue, but International Year of Freshwater can play a vital role in generating the action needed not only communities, the business sector and individuals all over the world.
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| 2002 Water for Development | International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) | | Sustainable development is very much on the global agenda for 2002, with the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in South Africa in September. The sustainable management and protection of water resources and operation of supply systems is high on this global agenda, but it is particularly important for the small island countries of the Pacific...
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2001 Water and Health | World Health Organization (WHO) | | Water and health are common denominators of human existence. World Water Day 2001 observance linking water and health, presents a unique opportunity to encourage awareness raising activities around water's importance to health in the life of every person on the planet...
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| 2000 Water for the 21st century | United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) | | Water for the 21st century reflects the growing concern that our demand for water is rapidly overtaking its availability. In fact, in some countries, water is so scarce that people must pay large sums of money to have the privilege of safe water...
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| 1999 Everybody Lives Downstream | United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (cache) | | As the theme "Everybody lives downstream" implies, the right to take water carries with it a responsibility - to use water wisely without unnecessary waste and to protect its quality. In many situations taking water for one use can have a downstream effect that interferes with the rights of others... |
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