This year’s World Water Day, 22 March 2025, highlights the theme ‘Glacier Preservation’ and the International Water Association (IWA) is pleased to add its voice of support, connecting its work bringing together water professionals around the world to advance water security.

In conjunction with World Water Day, the United Nations has published the United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR), UN-Water’s flagship report on water and sanitation issues, which is focussed on a different theme each year.

In an Expert Focus article for WaterBriefing on World Water Day, Caroline Boden, Head of Communication at Echo Managed Services explores how water companies can align messages about water conservation and sustainability with environmentally-conscious current and future Generation Z (Gen Z) customers.

The twelve Leaders who make up the United Nation's High Level Panel on Water have announced a series of early steps taken following on from last September’s Action Plan which called for a new approach to water management that will help to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

In an Expert Focus article for Waterbriefing, David Smith, Chief Strategy Officer for MWH Global, calls for countries and populations to do more to improve water resilience because of the huge impact it has on access to clean water, global health, jobs, economies and societies. 

Today is UN World Water Day, and it is followed fast tomorrow by Earth Hour. Given rising worldwide interest in the challenges of supplying clean water, I wonder how many business leaders in the UK will be discussing water today? Perhaps not as many as should be, but probably more than we might expect.

Paul Street, Director of Sustainable Solutions at Black & Veatch EMEIA,  calls for greater focus on water use by business and industry.