World Water Day - March 22

World Water Day is observed on March 22 since 1993 when the United Nations General Assembly declared March 22 as World Day for Water^[1].

This day was first formally proposed in Agenda 21 of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Observance began in 1993 and has grown significantly ever since.

The UN and its member nations devote this day to implementing UN recommendations and promoting concrete activities within their countries regarding the world's water resources. Each year, one of various UN agencies involved in water issues takes the lead in promoting and coordinating international activities for World Water Day. Since its inception in 2003, UN-Water has been responsible for selecting the theme, messages and lead UN agency for the World Day for Water.

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We all take the one thing granted. We assume it will rain again. We assume there will always be water again when we open the tap. All the assumptions we make could fail us soon. Then we will have to tap our water from the ocean, which is not only expensive, but we have also polluted this resource beyond our wildest imagination. Acid spills into water tables due to mining opp-orations is becoming all to familiar and more and more acceptable. 

In Europe, where draw our labor laws from, when this happens the economy will come to a abrupt halt. In South Africa we plead stupidity and start throwing rocks at Taxi commuters. We will tear our Educational Institutions down and burn the Capital Gain Equipment we earn our living with, but we do not look out for the one thing we need to survive on planet Earth.

Not Coool at All

by Petrus Viviers      -