World Water Day 💧 Accelerating Change

This World Water Day is about accelerating change to solve the water and sanitation crisis.

And because water affects us all, we need everyone to take action.

That means you!

You and your family, school and community can make a difference by changing the way you use, consume and manage water in your lives.

Play your part. Do what you can.

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What’s wrong?

Dysfunction throughout the water cycle is undermining progress on all major global issues, from health to hunger, gender equality to jobs, education to industry, disasters to peace.

Back in 2015, the world committed to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 as part of the 2030 Agenda – the promise that everyone would have safely managed water and sanitation by 2030.

Right now, we are seriously off-track. Billions of people and countless schools, businesses, healthcare centres, farms and factories are being held back because their human rights to water and sanitation have not yet been fulfilled.

What can I do to help accelerate change?

Your commitments will be added to the larger-scale commitments from governments, companies, organizations, institutions and coalitions.

Together, these promises will form the Water Action Agenda, to be launched at the UN 2023 Water Conference (22-24 March) – the first event of its kind for nearly 50 years.

World Water Day 2023 asks people to “Be the change you want to see in the world”.

Using an ancient story from the Quechua people in Peru, of a hummingbird who carries drops of water to put out a great forest fire, the campaign encourages people to do what they can to help solve the water and sanitation crisis.

There are three ways to get involved in 2023:

Learn

Explore the water and sanitation crisis and read inspirational stories from around the world at www.worldwaterday.org
Delve into UN-Water’s Water Facts
Find out about the themes to be discussed at the UN 2023 Water Conference
at sdgs.un.org/conferences/water2023
Read the UN World Water Development Report, launched on 22 March, on Accelerating Change: Partnerships and Cooperation at www.unwater.org/publications/un-world-water-development-report
Look into the water and sanitation issues in your country or region:
- SDG6DataPortal:www.sdg6data.org/en:washdata.org/data
- GlobalAnalysisandAssessmentofSanitationandDrinking-Water(GLAAS):
  glaas.who.int/
- WHOandUNICEF’sStateoftheworld’sdrinkingwater2021: www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240060807
- WHOandUNICEF’sStateoftheworld’ssanitation2021: www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240014473
- WHOandUNICEF’sStateoftheworld’shandhygiene2021: www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240036444

Act

Every year, tens of thousands of people get involved in World Water Day in the run-up to 22 March. Share photos from your activities using #WorldWaterDay. Here are some examples of things you can do:

Make your commitments to help solve the water and sanitation crisis at unwater.org/bethechange
Translate the action list at unwater.org/bethechange into your own or another language to engage even more people in the campaign.
Think about what water and sanitation mean to you and make an artwork, song or film as inspiration for others.
Organize a talk in your school, university, community, office or organization to start a conversation on water and sanitation.
Host a concert, play or sports event to draw attention to local water and sanitation issues.
If you are a teacher or student, organize/propose a lesson on water or get the whole school involved in water and sanitation-themed activities.
Organize a community clean-up of local streams, rivers, lakes and beaches.
Visit a lake, wetland or river and learn more about your closest water ecosystem.
Organize a photo contest or local exhibition themed on water or sanitation.

What is World Water Day?

Every year, World Water Day (22 March) raises awareness and inspires action to tackle the water and sanitation crisis. It is a United Nations observance, coordinated by UN-Water and led by one or more UN-Water Members and Partners with a related mandate. The theme is proposed in advance by UN-Water and is aligned with the annual publication of the UN World Water Development Report, published by UNESCO on behalf of UN-Water, with its production coordinated by the UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP).