World Water Day

On March 22, 2025, we celebrate World Water Day, a special day for focusing upon the most vital food for life on Earth. Each year, the United Nations Organization chooses a special water focus that has included water for cities, groundwater, health, disasters, scarcity, sanitation, food and security, and water waste. This year, the day’s theme is “Save our Glaciers” – glacier melt is speeding up each day.

For life and people on on planet, the speed-up of glacier meltwater is causing floods, droughts, landslides, sea level rise, and damaging ecosystems.

UNESCO began focusing on water related matters in 1956 and has worked towards today’s present level of the planet’s water awareness, water programs, project initiatives, and international cooperatives. The organization hosts include water education facilities, equitable management support, water assessment, and global reporting on water resources. It coordinates world water programs with the world meteorology programs and international flood networks.

World Water Day is one event in a series of events, meetings, conferences, seminars, and summits taking place in different locations around the globe. UNESCO promotes planetary cooperation on water resources and management to benefit all persons. Water cooperation promotes equitable access to the maximum number of people, creates economic benefits, and assists resource preservation to protect the environment and help build peace between states.

World Water Day is a good day to remember that as our planet heats up, the frozen glacier packs melt faster and raise sea levels around the world. This makes our water cycles unpredictable and extreme – producing worse storms, more floods, more drought, landslides, and sea level rise.

Together, if we can continue work to reduce our warming gas emissions we could manage meltwater more sustainably.

B Bondar / Real World Content Advantage