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In 1993, the United Nations General Assembly designated March 22 as the first World Water Day to raise awareness regarding different issues about water around the world. This year’s campaign is ...
Children presenting a puppet show for the "My School Toilet" contest in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines, for World Water Day in 2010. World Water Day is an international observance day. The intention is to inspire people around the world to learn more about water-related issues and to take action to make a difference. [1]
The funds would go towards providing impoverished children with clean drinking water; with $1, UNICEF can provide a child with access to clean, safe water for 15'to days. That first year the campaign was only on World Water Day, since then it has centered on World Water Week.
The international Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP) is a competition that encourages young people's interest in water and environment issues. Beginning in 1995, the award is given annually for an outstanding water project by a young person or a small group of young people at a ceremony held during the World Water Week in Stockholm .
End Water Poverty campaign logo. End Water Poverty is an international campaign that helps to provide sanitation and potable water.. The coalition members consist mainly of non-governmental organizations from around the world who recognize sanitation and water's vital role in tackling poverty and creating sustainable development.
The collective goal was to expand participation to one million people in 100 countries by 2012. In January 2015 the management of World Water Monitoring Day was transferred to EarthEcho International. 2008 saw students from Indonesia [2] to Arkansas [3] taking part in water sampling to bring attention to the importance of water quality.
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UN-Water members and partners have helped embed water and sanitation in several agreements, such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (which led to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)), the 2015-2030 Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the 2015 Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development, and the 2015 Paris Agreement within the UN Convention Framework on ...