We’re leaving no-one behind with 2019’s World Water Day

As a professional industrial cleaning company, we recognise and uphold our role in conserving water and include the effective management of water use in our environmental policy. Here in the UK, we take it for granted that we will receive a flow of fresh, clean water every time we turn a tap on but for millions of people around the world, water, and how they will survive without it, is always on their mind.

The need to highlight water scarcity and the difficulties faced by so many of the planet’s inhabitants was recognised many years ago, and in 1992, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro proposed an international day to celebrate freshwater. As a result, the  United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/47/193 of 22 December 1992 by which 22 March of each year was declared World Day for Water, to be observed starting in 1993, in conformity with the recommendations of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) contained in Chapter 18 (Fresh Water Resources) of Agenda 21.

International World Water Day has been held annually on 22 March since 1993 as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. Each year, UN-Water — the entity that coordinates the UN’s work on water and sanitation — sets a theme for World Water Day corresponding to a current or future challenge. The theme for 2019 is ‘Leaving no one behind’, which adapts the central promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that as sustainable development progresses, everyone must benefit.

UN-Water states:

“Billions of people are still living without safe water – their households, schools, workplaces, farms and factories struggling to survive and thrive. Marginalised groups – women, children, refugees, indigenous peoples, disabled people and many others – are often overlooked, and sometimes face discrimination, as they try to access and manage the safe water they need. This World Water Day, 22nd March, is about tackling the water crisis by addressing the reasons why so many people are being left behind.

Together with access to sanitation, safe water underpins public health and is therefore critical to sustainable development and a stable and prosperous world. We cannot move forward as a global society while so many people are living without safe water

Here at Atkins Gregory, we will be supporting World Water Day and you can too.  Visit #WorldWaterDay website or share on social media.