World Water Day 2022: Significance, History, this year's theme

Every year on March 22, the world celebrates World Water Day. The day is intended to promote the responsible management of freshwater resources.

The focus for this year is groundwater, which is a dwindling resource overused by many countries. While groundwater is pumped for domestic and industrial use, it also is critical to the healthy functioning of ecosystems. 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.” The United Nations has also asked people to shoot a 60-second video describing the impact groundwater has on the person's life, as well as what else can be done to protect it.

Significance

World Water Day is an important event because the UN is attempting to raise awareness of the importance of freshwater in communities worldwide. UN also warns people about the global water crisis. On World Water Day, people worldwide raise public awareness about the importance of clean water and the need for sustainable management of this vital resource. Let us look at the subject, history, and significance of World Water Day for this year.

History

World Water Day was officially established by a resolution approved at the United Nations General Assembly conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The United Nations General Assembly then passed a resolution declaring March 22 to be World Water Day every year beginning 1993. The March 22nd date was agreed upon and finalized. It was celebrated every year.



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