BIOLOGY

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31/03/09

In 2009, the UN has decided to make March 22nd the official World Water Day(WWD) for this year. In 1992, the UN realized that it was time to respect our water. So they created a day to draw attention to our critical lack of clean water. Although World Water Day is a worldwide event, not many people know about this event. At this time, WWD is at a similar stage as Earth Day in the early 1970`s. This years theme was Transboundary Waters. It highlighted issues about how to be able to share water around the world. This is a portion of the message spoken by the director from this years event, Mr. Kiochiro Matsuura: " Water affects all aspects of human life, from health and sanitation to the food that we eat, from our environment and ecosystems to the industry and energy that power our development. Yet this vital resource is under threat. The amount of water we have has remained constant for thousands of years while the number and types of users have increased massively. Global dynamics – such as population growth, urbanization, land use changes, and global warming – are creating competing pressures on this finite resource. As a result, the amount of water available for each = person is increasingly unequal and diminishing dramatically ......." = 

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