In 1993, the United Nations General Assembly designated March 22nd as World Water Day… A day to celebrate water, a day to contemplate water’s vital attributes, a day to prepare a course for individual and group solutions for water-related problems and how we manage water in the future.
World Water Day strives to highlight a different water-related issue every year. The issue provides a foundation for the theme of the annual UN World Water Development Reports which is launched on World Water Day.
In 2015, the theme for World Water Day is ‘Water and Sustainable Development‘. It’s about how water links to all areas humanity needs to consider to create the future we want in terms of: health, nature, urbanization, industry, energy, food, equality.
A World Water Day photo/journal report authored by David Sim in the International Business Times caught my attention this week. It is a powerful set of photographs. The collection of images in David Sim’s article vividly demonstrate how people perceive or experience water is not the same world-wide. David Sim’s photos carry an important message about water…”Think twice about wasting this precious resource.”
I cut the following photos from Sim’s article hoping they will entice you click on the link to view his entire collage, and to create a post for this week’s week’s UNLESS… Earth-friendly challenge.
UNLESS…Earth-friendly Challenge 7- World Water Day- Water is a precious resource; let us count the ways
Water… clean and potable is a precious resource! For this week’s challenge, appreciate water!
Celebrate the ways it impacts your life.
You can use the U.N. categories to inspire your photographs and thoughts…
Or, simply create your own celebration.
How is water precious to you?
Let us count the ways, and show appreciation by “thinking twice about wasting it.”
Please join the Challenge by sharing your photos and thoughts-
Do you know about Rajendra Singh? You should …
Winner of the Stockholm Water Prize, he is a sustainable water project hero in India. Read his inspiring story: