World Water Day is celebrated annually on March 22nd to raise awareness about the importance and need to protect water. The United Nations General Assembly first proposed the day in 1992 during the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The first World Water Day was celebrated in 1993.
This day was first formally proposed in Agenda 21 of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. In December 1992, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/47/193 by which 22 March of each year was declared World Day for Water.
In 1993, the first World Water Day was observed.[1] An archive of previous World Water Day campaign websites also exists.
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