The UN World Water Day is celebrated on March 22 every year. World Water Day aims at focusing our attention on the importance of water. Globally, we are faced with many water challenges.
Headline facts
2.1 billion people lack access to drinking water.
1.9 billion people live in potentially severe water-scare areas.
An estimated 64-71 % of natural wetlands have been lost since 1900 as the result of human activity.
Over 80% of wastewater generated by society flows back without being treated or reused into the environment.
1.8 billion people are affected by land degradation and desertification.
1.2 billion people are at risk from floods today.
The 2018 World Water Day theme, “The Answer Is In Nature” highlights nature-based-solutions (NBS) to meet the water challenges we face today. Nature-based solutions help the management of water availability and quality. Examples of NBS include restoring forests, grasslands and natural wetlands, reconnecting rivers to floodplains, creating buffers of vegetation along water courses. From www.worldwaterday.org/