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World Water Day

The World Water Day is held every year since 1993 on March 22. It was proposed & decided  in Agenda 21 of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro and at the UN General Assembly (in addition to Malaysia’s request) in a resolution on 22nd in December 1992.
The resolution calls on all UN member states to start at the World Water Day concrete actions to make the public aware of the valuable water resources and to save water.
The theme of this year’s World Water Day is “Water for the city“. This theme 2011, recalled that both,the rapidly increasing urbanization in the emerging and developing countries, as well as the impact of urban regions in Europe constitute major challenges to living near  the waters.
Water is vital source for humans, animals and plants. Rivers and other waters are used worldwide as a natural drainage channel. This is a significant threat to the health of residents and users.
It becomes a vicious circle, as rivers (especially in urban areas) are used both for washing and bathing, as well as to serve drinking water.
But even in Europe, we  must focus on to the waters in urban areas, and pay more attention, especially flood-adapted building will remain an important aspect of urban settlement planning.

World Water Day
is to call the people around the world to remember that water is the basis of all life.
All meeting facilities, institutions and organizations that provide water management tasks are pointing out the immeasurable value of clean drinking water on this day.
The theme of World Water Day 1993 “Caring for our water resources is everyone’s business”
(It is everyone’s job to protect our valuable water resources) is more relevant than ever!

World Water Day