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WORLD WATER DAY – MARCH 22 ACCELERATING CHANGE

This World Water Day is about accelerating change to solve the water and sanitation crisis.

And because water affects us all, we need everyone to take action – and that means YOU.

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You and your family, your school, and community can make a difference by changing the way you use, consume, and manage water in your lives. Your commitments will be added to the Water Action Agenda, to be launched at the UN 2023 Water Conference – the first event of its kind for nearly 50 years.

This is a once-in-a-generation moment for the world to unite around water.

Play your part. Do what you can.

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Learn

Dysfunction througout the water cycle is undermining progress on all maor global issues, from health to hunger, gender equality to jobs, education to industry, disasters to peace.

Back in 2015, the world committed to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 as part of the 2030 Agenda – the promise that everyone would have safely managed water and sanigtation by 2030.

Right now, we are seriously off-track. Billions of people and countless schools, businesses, healthcare centres, farms, and factories are being held back because their human rights to water and sanitation have not yet been fulfilled.

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Investing In Action

The Rotary Foundation plans for the future, not just for today, and helps members put ideas into action. In the words of Arch Klumph below:

“Rotary has assumed a great obligation to the world… Its opportunities are limitless, but its income today and of tomorrow will never permit it to do the many things which it could and should do.

Let me remind you of these three facts:

(1) Money alone does little good.

(2) Individual service is helpless without money.

(3) The two together can be a godsend to civilization.”

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