Polish aid

World Water Day 2020 is about water and climate change, and how the two are inextricably linked.

Everyone on Earth should have access to clean water. However, due to bad economy or crumbling infrastructure, every year millions of people, particularly children, die from diseases related to inadequate water resources, poor sanitation, and lack of hygiene.

Water scarcity, poor water quality, and inadequate sanitation have an adverse effect on food security and sources of livelihood. Droughts affect some of the world’s poorest regions, which exacerbates famine and undernourishment there.

Water can help fight climate change, for there are sustainable and inexpensive water and sanitation solutions. Using water more efficiently and sparingly, we can reduce floods and droughts, for example by building sand dams and irrigation systems.

Everyone has a role to play. In our daily lives we can take surprisingly easy steps to address climate change. For this reason UN-Water, an agency that coordinates all UN actions related to fresh water, including sanitation, has launched a global campaign using the www.worldwaterday.org website and social media, thus offering people and organisations tools to promote campaigns involving their own audience.

Poland has also joined these World Water Day activities, and on Twitter.com/polskapomoc we have published information on actions that have been conducted in cooperation with Polish diplomatic missions, non-governmental organisations, and the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations.

Negotiations on Polish-Tanzanian cooperation in the water sector

In 1993, the United Nations designated 22 March as World Water Day. Every year we focus attention on the importance of fresh water.

The main purpose of celebrating World Water Day is to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030.