World Water Day 2022

It is observed on 22 March every year.

Water has an essential part of every living organism. To enlighten the importance of water in everyone's life, World Water Day is celebrated on March 22 every year to highlight the core of freshwater. This day was first observed in 1993. According to the United Nations website, more than 2.2 billion people live without access to safe water.

This year the day is highlighting the global water crisis and aims to support achieving Sustainable Water and Sanitation for all by 2030. The concept and idea for this day go back to 1992 in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil when the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development took place.

On this occasion of World Water Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, “On World Water Day, let's reaffirm our pledge to save every drop of water. Our nation is undertaking numerous measures like Jal Jeevan Mission to ensure water conservation and access to clean drinking water for our citizens.”

Further, Prime Minister added, “Over the last few years, it is heartening to see water conversation become a mass movement, with innovative efforts taking place in all parts of the nation. I would like to appreciate all those individuals and organizations who are working towards saving water."

The focus for this year is groundwater, which is a dwindling resource overused by many countries. The UN on its website has detailed the troubling trend of an over-reliance on groundwater saying, “We must protect them from overexploitation – abstracting more water than is recharged by rain and snow - and the pollution that currently haunts them, since it can lead to the depletion of this resource, extra-costs of processing it, and sometimes even preventing its use.”

Moreover, the UN urged people to shoot a 60-second video describing the impact groundwater has on a person's life, as well as what else can be done to protect it. It said users can post the video with hashtags #MyGroundwaterStory and #WorldWaterDay to YouTube or Vimeo.ater.”