Time to celebrate World Water Day!

11 March, 2013

Time to celebrate World Water Day! 22 March 2013 On the occasion of WWD, celebrations and events are taking place worldwide. Check the worldmap of events now > Official celebrations and a High Level Forum will take place in The Hague, The Netherlands. The programme of the day includes inspirational speeches, presentations, panel and thematic discussions, and a series of public shows on the theme of water cooperation. Read more > A High-Level Interactive Dialogue of the 67th session of the UNGA will also be convened in New York on 22 March to mark the 2013 International Year of Water Cooperation and the twentieth anniversary of the proclamation of World Water Day. Read more >

Experience our revamped website and enjoy exciting new materials and features! The website has been revamped to offer advanced, more exciting features including a World Map of Events, a Logo Builder, Facts and Figures on Water Cooperation, Resources to support your campaign efforts, and much more! Visit the site >

Doing something for Water Cooperation? Tell the world about it! The worldmap of events is now available online! If you are holding an event in celebration of the International Year of Water Cooperation or World Water Day, and would like to feature it on the official website, submit a request online now! You can also use our search feature to find out what others are organizing and maybe find something taking place near you. See the World Map of events >

Build your own customized logo with our new online logo builder! Want to chose your own language? A specific pattern? A nice set of colors? Use our online logo builder developed with the support of the UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC), and generate your customized logo for the Water Cooperation 2013 campaign! Build your logo now >

Featured Initiatives In every newsletter, we would like to highlight at least one initiative aimed at raising awareness on water issues for World Water Day and the International Year of Water Cooperation. For this edition, we present Walking for Water and the World Water Day Kids Forum.

Walking for Water 2013 more than 33.000 kids involved 6.000 students from over 80 schools around the world will take the walk! From Columbia to Pakistan, from Ireland to Kenya, kids are getting ready to take action and join the 27.000 participating students in The Netherlands, the campign is really going global! Take the Walk >

'Letters for Water' and the World Water Day Kids Summit 22 March in Osaka, Japan In 2013, this educative forum will look at "What can we do to conserve and better share water?" and will be held in Osaka. The winners of the "Letters for Water" initiative on water cooperation will be awarded at the Summit, letting us discover stories of what children think about water today. Read more >