This World Water Day, 22 March 2019, is about tackling the water crisis by addressing the reasons why so many people do not have access to water.
The initiative is spearheaded by the United Nations (UN), using the day as a basis for longer-term action involving governments across the globe. The UN aims to ensure that everyone in the world has access to safe water by 2030, while not impacting negatively on the environment.
The United Nations each year set a theme for this initiative. The theme for 2019 is leaving no one behind, Water for All. This theme seeks to inform policy decision makers on how improvements in water resource management are important to overcoming poverty and addressing various other socio-economic inequities.
However, the department of Water & Sanitation, under the theme, convened a media networking breakfast as part of World Water Day on Friday at Sheraton hotel in Tshwane to discuss collaboration efforts of the organisations with the government to ensure that water for all can be achieved.
Nick Tandi of World Bank/ 2030 Water Resource Group said that in 2030 there will be less water available that what is available currently.
Nick added that, “we need to reduce water use and industry has to play a part to put in technologies that decreases water use. Agriculture itself also needs to have more efficient technologies”.
World Water Day tries to remind people about the significance of fresh water and to promote sustainability for fresh water resource management.
