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#WorldWaterDay reaches 700 million people
This is amazing: 700 million people potentially saw your posts on World Water Day. How do we know? We decided to track the hashtag #WorldWaterDay and 700 million is the...

Thank you!
Thanks to you, water and energy issues were really in the spotlight on 22 March. All around the world, your events helped raise awareness and to show our gratefulness, we...

World Water Day Celebrations kick off in Tokyo - webcast available
On Friday 21 March, the UN-Water World Water Day celebrations continue in Tokyo, Japan with discussions and debates, the official launch of the World Water Development Report, the Water for...

Winners of the Facebook Photo Competition
To help raise awareness and celebrate World Water Day, we held a Facebook Photo Competition from January 15th to February 28th 2014 asking World Water Day fans to submit...

Busy as beavers
World Water Day is what you make out of it. And - WOW - are we impressed with what you are doing! Picnics, a zoo exhibition, public talks, lectures, debates,...

Unacceptable!
When the World Water Development Report comes out on 21 March, it shows that it is often the same people who...

Cherry blossom for World Water Day?
Some of us will be in Tokyo, Japan for the UN-Water celebrations of World Water Day. The agenda is packed with interesting speakers and don't forget that the event is...

Advocacy Guide available
The World Water day 2014 Advocacy Guide on Water and Energy is now available for download in English.
The guide aims to introduce key information relevant to the theme of World...

Facebook photo contest closed. Thank you for all the great contributions!
We will be accepting photographs for our Facebook Photo Contest on Water and Energy starting on 15 January 2014. Participate and win a chance to have your photo exposed during...

UN-Water Annual Conference in Zaragoza
Preparing for World Water Day 2014: Water and Energy
13-16 January 2014 | Zaragoza, Spain
Water and energy are closely interlinked and interdependent. Water and Energy inter-linkages have an important...