World Water Day 2010
Today 22nd March 2010 is the World Water Day. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that
Three-day celebrations for World Water Day in Nairobi, Kenya, kicked off on 20 March, bringing together scientists, policy-makers and others to discuss how to address the challenges posed by degrading water quality worldwide.more people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, including war. He called for better protection and sustainable management of one of the Earth’s most precious resources on the occasion of World Water Day.
“These deaths are an affront to our common humanity, and undermine the efforts of many countries to achieve their development potential,” Mr. Ban said in his message for the Day, which this year focuses on “Clean Water for a Healthy World” as its theme.
“Our growing population’s need for water for food, raw materials and energy is increasingly competing with nature’s own demands for water to sustain already imperilled ecosystems and the services on which we depend,” he noted.
The General Assembly designated the first World Water Day in 1993, and on 22 March every year since, the focus has been on a different aspect of freshwater sustainability, including sanitation and water scarcity. Let us work together and towards this good cause.
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