The United Nations' (UN) World Water Day is held on March 22 each year. Events are organized on or around this day to increase people's awareness of water's importance in environment, agriculture, health and trade.
By resolution 47/193 of 22 December 1992, the General Assembly declared 22 March of each year World Day for Water starting in 1993. It is a unique occasion to remind everybody that concrete efforts to provide clean drinking water and increase awareness world-wide of the problems and of the solutions, can help make the difference.
In resolution 58/217 of 23 December 2003, the General Assembly proclaimed the period from 2005 to 2015 the International Decade for Action, "Water for Life".
Recent World Water Day themes include:
* Shared Waters, Shared Opportunities (2009).
* Sanitation (2008).
* Coping with Water Scarcity (2007).
* Water and Culture (2006).
* Water for Life (2005).
* Water and Disasters (2004).
* Water for the Future (2003).
* Water for Development (2002).
* Water for Health (2001).
* Water for the 21st Century (2000).
* Everyone Lives Downstream (1999).
* Groundwater: the Invisible Resource (1998).
* The World's Water: Is There Enough? (1997).
* Water for Thirsty Cities (1996).
* Women and Water (1995).
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