2010: Clean Water for a Healthy World
Coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (
UNEP). The communication and visual identity campaign is by FAO WATER, the Food and Agriculture Organization (
FAO) Water section.
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UN-Water is dedicating World Water Day 2010 to the theme of water quality, reflecting its importance alongside quantity of the resource in water management.
Clean water and war: in time of war the access to clean water is frequently restricted because water supply or purification systems have been destroyed, because water reserves are located in areas that have become dangerous or because of massive displacement. People ultimately resort to sources of water with a high health risk and many people contract water-borne diseases.
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2009: Transboundary Waters
Coordinated by the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (
UNESCO), with the assistance of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (
UNECE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (
FAO) Water section.
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On the occasion of 2009 World Day for Water the
ICRC called on governments to ensure safe water and decent sanitation for civilians in conflict zones. In many conflicts, disease kills more civilians than bullets.
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2008: Sanitation
Coordinated by the United Nations Children's Fund (
UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (
WHO). The World Day for Water 2008 also coincides with the International Year of Sanitation (2008), which was organized by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (
UNDESA) in collaboration with the UN-Water Task Froce on Sanitation.
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On March 21, 2008,
Guardian Weekly published a special report on World Day for Water.OMG
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2007: Coping With Water Scarcity
Coordinated by Food and Agriculture Organization (
FAO). 2007's theme highlighted the increasing significance of water scarcity worldwide and the need for increased integration and cooperation to ensure sustainable, efficient and equitable management of scarce water resources, both at international and local levels.
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2006: Water and Culture
Coordinated by United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (
UNESCO). The theme 'Water and Culture' of 2006 drew the attention to the fact that there are as many ways of viewing, using, and celebrating water as there are cultural traditions across the world.
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2005: Water for Life 2005-2015
Coordinated by the United Nations (
UN). The United Nations General Assembly at its 58th session in December 2003 agreed to proclaim the years 2005 to 2015 as the International Decade for Action, "Water for Life" (
Water for Life Decade), and beginning with World Water Day, March 22, 2005.
[11] The Water for Life decade set the world’s goals on “a greater focus on water-related issues, while striving to ensure the participation of women in water-related development efforts, and further cooperation at all levels to achieve water-related goals of the Millennium Declaration, Johannesburg Plan of Implementation of the World Summit for Sustainable Development and Agenda 21.”
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2004: Water and Disasters
Coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization (
WMO) and the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR). The message of the Day was: Weather, climate and water resources can have a devastating impact on socio-economic development and on the well-being of humankind. According to the World Meteorological Organization weather and climate-related extreme events, such as tornadoes, thunderstorms, storms, cyclones, floods and drought, account for nearly 75 per cent of all disasters. They lead to an enormous toll of human suffering, loss of life and economic damage. Monitoring these events, predicting their movements and issuing timely warnings are essential to mitigate the disastrous impact of such events on population and economy.
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2003: Water for Future
Coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (
UNEP). Water for the Future was the theme for World Water Day 2003. It called on each one of us to maintain and improve the quality and quantity of fresh water available to future generations. The goal was to inspire political and community action and encourage greater global understanding of the need for more responsible water use and conservation.
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2002: Water for Development
Coordinated by International Atomic Energy Agency (
IAEA). The theme for 2002, 'Water for Development,' carried the message that the poor and deteriorating state of water resources in many parts of the world demand integrated water resources planning and management.
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2001: Water for Health
Coordinated by the World Health Organization (
WHO). The message for the day was: "Concrete efforts are necessary to provide clean drinking water and improve health as well as to increase awareness world-wide of the problems and of the solutions. 22 March is a unique occasion to remind everybody that solutions are possible. Use the resources on this site to help turn words into political commitment and action.”
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2000: Water for the 21st Century
Coordinated by United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (
UNESCO).
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1999: Everyone Lives Downstream
Coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (
UNEP). The 1999 World Water Day's primary message is that when it comes to using freshwater, human beings, whether they live in a village or a megacity, cannot isolate themselves from their neighbours. Rather, there are fundamental linkages and dependencies between water users and uses in a given drainage basin that affect everyone in that basin.
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1998: Groundwater - The Invisible Resource
Coordinated by the United Nations Children's Fund (
UNICEF). Nearly half of the world's population depends on groundwater sources for drinking water supply and for other uses. The UN is concerned about three primary gaps in groundwater management which have enormous implications for sustainable development: (1) The accelerated degradation of groundwater systems, through pollution of aquifers. (2) The lack of both professional and public awareness about the sustainable use and economic importance of groundwater resources generally. (3) The economic implications of not resolving groundwater demand and supply management.
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1997: The World's Water: Is there enough?
Coordinated by United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (
UNESCO)and the World Meteorological Organization (
WMO). The message for the World Day for Water 1997 was that water is a basic requirement for all life, yet water resources are facing more and more demands from, and competition among, users.
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1996: Water for Thirsty Cities
World Day for Water 1996 emphasized the growing water crisis faced by cities across the world which threatens the sustainability of their social and economic development.
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1995: Women and Water[19]
1994: Caring for our Water Resources is Everybody's Business[20] 
