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World Water Day
Every drop has somewhere to be.
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Where it comes from
World Water Day was first proposed in Agenda 21, the action plan agreed at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. On 22 December that year the UN General Assembly declared 22 March of each year the World Day for Water, to be observed from 1993.
How it's celebrated
UN-Water, which coordinates the UN's work on water and sanitation, chooses a theme and runs the global campaign, and a new UN World Water Development Report is released on or near the day. Schools, cities and water utilities hold talks, clean-ups, exhibitions and plant tours.
Did you know
According to WHO and UNICEF, 1.8 billion people still have no drinking water at home, and in two out of three such households women are mainly responsible for fetching it.
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