World Water Day 2008
World Water Day 2008
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World Water Day 2008
The UN Water group has decided the WWD theme 2008 will be "sanitation", supporting the International Year of Sanitation. Start planning your action now!
This is an overview of events around World Water Day. If you are organizing an event that is not listed here, please submit it.
The UN IYS site has interesting public service announcments and key messages.
Through a participatory process among various IYS partners eight objectives were were agreed.
Campaign materials for World Water Day 2008 are exclusively provided by the UN agency that is organising public awareness activities around the day.
UN Water announced that the World Water Day 2008 will be celebrated by the UN on Thursday, 20 March, in Geneva.
Celebrating World Water Day 2008: Sanitation matters! See 5 Steps for Planning and Evaluating World Water Day Activities.
For events celebrating WWD 2008 already planned see the UN WWD site.
Although sanitation is the theme for 2008 walking and talking for water are the most popular events listed on this site.
Gramalaya will announce three rural blocks consisting of 429 villages and 186 slums in the City Corporation of Tiruchirappalli as open defecation free villages and slums.