International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.

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.

Each year, World Water Day highlights a specific aspect of freshwater.

 

The World Water Day 2010 and its campaign is envisaged to:

• Raise awareness about sustaining healthy ecosystems and human well-being through addressing the increasing water quality challenges in water management and
  
  
• Raise the profile of water quality by encouraging governments, organizations, communities, and individuals around the world to actively engage in proactively addressing water quality e.g. in pollution prevention, clean up and restoration.
  

 

Water Quality : Healthy People, Healthy Ecosystems

 

ASIA WATER 2010

"The Asia Water Conference is a platform where best practices are discussed, shared and led to the incubation of new and innovative ideas," said MWA president Ahmad Zahdi Jamil, who is also the organising chairman.

"These ideas are then translated and disseminated among water industry players, and then adapted according to local needs," he said in a statement Friday.

Themed "Best Practices -- Lesson Learnt in Developing Countries", the conference this year will cover topics such as water safety plan, capacity building and treatment works, and water quality.

Key participants in the conference include the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, National Water Services Commission and Water Supply Department.