OK Water Peeps, the Big H2O Day is coming. FYI, here is where it all came from ...

An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The United Nations General Assembly responded by designating 22 March 1993 as the first World Water Day.

On March 22, 2009 its about Transboundary Waters - or waters that bring us together.

The world’s 263 transboundary lake and river basins include the territory of 145 countries and cover nearly half of the Earth’s land surface. Great reservoirs of freshwater also move silently below our borders in underground aquifers.

With every country seeking to satisfy its water needs from limited water resources, some foresee a future filled with conflict. But history shows that cooperation, not conflict, is the most common response to transboundary water management issues.

Over the last 60 years there have been more than 200 international water agreements and only 37 cases of reported violence between states over water. We need to continue to nurture the opportunities for cooperation that transboundary water management can provide.

We share the responsibility for managing the world’s transboundary waters for current and future generations.

Whether we live upstream, or downstream, we are all in the same boat.  

There is something about water that can actually solve all of our issues on this big blue planet ... but it will take a breakthrough in human consciousness ... and the official World Water Day Website is helping the movement pick up steam. It seems someone at the UN has finally gotten the message and hired a great web team. Read on ...

• They have with H2O campaign materials to print and to put on your website.
• They have H2O events you can participate in, around the globe.
• They have a photo gallery of H2O pics from around the world.

And lots more. There are other sites too ... Splash over to here and here - and then there is my World Water Day Film Festival.

Get wet this year.

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