He World Water Day 2025celebrated Every March 22 since 1993it is a global initiative backed by United Nations To highlight the importance of fresh water for our planet and the need to fight its shortage worldwide, once about 2.2 billion people still lack access to drinking water safely.
Water is a fundamental resource that supports life on our planet. From the oceans to rivers and lakes, water is indispensable for human well -being, agriculture, industry and ecosystems. However, despite its vital importance, sustainable water management faces numerous challenges, such as scarcity, pollution and overexploitation of water resources.
In it World Water Day 2025that the March 22 of each year, the importance of conserve and protect this vital resource for population and environmental health. It is an opportunity to reflect on the need to adopt responsible water management practices and to promote awareness about the problems related to their equitable access and use throughout the world.
With the celebration of this event, the global water crisis and the problem facing millions of people who do not have access to the drinking water supply, as well as the urgent measures that must be taken in this regard, are intended to make known.
Water: a more than necessary resource
Between 60 and 90% of the body’s body volume (including human being) and 90% of plants are composed of agua, which makes this resource the most indispensable for life. No living being should be without its ration, so its management must be carefully planned and executed.
This implies that there is no time to lose it in sterile discussions, but that politicians must get to work and begin to plan future actions, to prevent major evils. If the little ones are added to this, but essential personal efforts, distributing water in an equitable and fair way, is a tangible possibility.
World Water Crisis
About 780 million people around the world (almost 10% of the planet’s inhabitants) survive without accessing a source of drinking water, safe and clean. He World Water Day 2025 It is a good time for those who forget how important it is to have a tap and water on demand, reflect and value these circumstances.
There are many more people who perish due to lack of drinking water, than those who die from different forms of violence, including wars or murders. Water scarcity causes many diseases, many of them avoidable and unfortunately the most affected are children, since by diarrheal conditions one per minute.
A quarter of the population does not have sanitary facilities in their homes and more than 20% of hospitals and medical care centers in the world, do not even have drinking water, much less with latrines or toilets.
In large part of Africa, especially in the sub -Saharan areas, Women and girls are in charge of going to collect water For family use. Thousands of hours of study, work and leisure are lost in these activities and this makes the productive time of these women is one of the minors in the world.
If there were sources of safe drinking water, close to each of the populations of the world, hunger and malnutrition would be reduced to a large extent, as well as the levels of mortality and disease, which suffer from the inhabitants of the most vulnerable and depressed areas of the world would descend. In addition, many times the water is a reason for disputes, and if their quantity decreases they will multiply.
On World Water Day 2025 What can be done?
There is no doubt that the first step is to value The importance of waterlearn to take care of it and give the example that it is feasible to live without wasting it. It is crucial that we all appreciate the true magnitude of the problem and be aware of the need to preserve this precious well.
It is necessary that politicians and rulers agree and have a common goal, which includes the reversal of the Climate changethe mitigation of its consequences and the achievement of a management and distribution of fair, participatory and global waters. So no one has to suffer thirst, or get water supposes an effort that endangers the harmony of communities.