Information and activities (to be updated continuously).
World Water Day, held on 22 March every year since 1993, is an annual United Nations Observance focusing on the importance of freshwater.
World Water Day celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water. It is about taking action to tackle the global water crisis. A core focus of World Water Day is to support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030.
Every year, UN-Water — the UN’s coordination mechanism on water and sanitation — sets the theme for World Water Day. In 2023, the focus was on Accelerating Change. In 2024, on Leveraging Water for Peace. In 2025, the theme will be Glacier Preservation.
The Blue Community suggestion for World Water Day 2025: Turn the world blue! Make your municipality, your university or school, your company or NGO, your faith-based group or trade union, any organisation or institution you are involved in, become a Blue Community and join our network. How? Here more about it.
Planned activities
- Blue Community Switzerland: Event on 20 March 2025 in Rapperswil, Switzerland
- Immerse and experience – become water. 22./23 March 2025, 10:00 – 17:00h, in Zurich, Switzerland, as part of the exhibition “Water. Designing for the future” (until April 6)
Do you plan some activities around World Water Day 2025? Please let us know. Send information about scheduled activities by e-mail.
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