"Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink."

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 World Water Day - March 22

World Water Day has been observed on 22 March since 1993 when the United Nations General Assembly declared 22 March as World Day for Water.

This day was first formally proposed in Agenda 21 of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Observance began in 1993 and has grown significantly ever since; for the general public to show support, it is encouraged for the public to not use their taps throughout the whole day .World Water Day 2013 will be celebrated under the theme Water Cooperation, within the framework of the United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation 2013, coordinated by UNESCO on behalf of UN Water. It's a day celebrated each year to focus the world's eyes on the importance of water in our daily lives and raise awareness about the need to preserve and conserve what we've got so there is plenty to go around.

The Importance of Water Conservation

Water conservation is important because we need drinking water and we need some of the animals that live in water and things like that. 

With 70% of the earth's surface being water, it would seem logical to think there is plenty for all of our needs.  We live in a world of water, but approximately 97% of it makes up the oceans.  Ocean water is too salty to be used for drinking water, farming, or manufacturing.  Only 3% of the world's water is fresh, and 2% of this supply is frozen in glaciers and ice caps.  How much water does this leave us for use in everyday life?  You got it, only 1%.

It is this fresh water that we need to drink, wash, irrigate farms etc. Fresh water, therefore, is very important for our survival. However, the fresh water level has started to drop across various countries. Regions like Southern California are facing problems of water shortage. Hence water conservation is necessary to safeguard this fresh water from drying up completely. 

There are various ways of conserving water... e.g - 
 * Install a low flow toilet and shower head 
 * Reuse grey water from kitchen and bathroom to water you garden / lawn 
 * Fix leaking faucets and sprinklers 
 * Turn off faucets while brushing your teeth etc ..

 It is necessary to to start conserving our water because the supply of cheap, easily available water is shrinking and the development of new supplies will become more costly.  If we hope to keep costs down we must all conserve.  Each of us has a moral and personal responsibility to conserve this precious resource.

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