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World Water Day 2023

World Water Day 2023 will focus on accelerating change to solve the water and sanitation crisis. Issues across the water cycle undermine progress on every major global issue, from health to hunger, gender equality to jobs, education to industry, disasters to peace.

In 2015, the world committed to achieving the 2030 Agenda's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 – the pledge that everyone will have safe water and sanitation management by 2030. Currently, this goal will be hardly accomplished.

The celebration of this World Water Day coincides with the start of the UN Water Conference 2023 (March 22-24, New York), the event is a unique opportunity to unite the world in order to solve the water crisis and sanitation, in the Italian delegation to the Conference there will also be a researcher from ISPRA.

In the side event organized by FAO, the work on the "Italy" pilot case and the disaggregation of the SDG 6.4.2 indicator (Level of water stress: freshwater withdrawal as a percentage of available freshwater resources) at district scale will be presented hydrographic, work conducted by ISPRA in the context of a specific agreement with FAO, and with the support of Istat

On 23 March ISPRA is organizing the conference "The silent revolution of water", promoted as part of the WHOW project (Water Health Open knowledge), whose objective is the creation of a distributed European infrastructure capable of connecting environmental and health data.

  • World Water Day 2023
  • 2023-03-22T00:00:00+01:00
  • 2023-03-22T23:59:59+01:00
  • World Water Day 2023 will focus on accelerating change to solve the water and sanitation crisis. Issues across the water cycle undermine progress on every major global issue, from health to hunger, gender equality to jobs, education to industry, disasters to peace. In 2015, the world committed to achieving the 2030 Agenda's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 – the pledge that everyone will have safe water and sanitation management by 2030. Currently, this goal will be hardly accomplished. The celebration of this World Water Day coincides with the start of the UN Water Conference 2023 (March 22-24, New York), the event is a unique opportunity to unite the world in order to solve the water crisis and sanitation, in the Italian delegation to the Conference there will also be a researcher from ISPRA. In the side event organized by FAO, the work on the "Italy" pilot case and the disaggregation of the SDG 6.4.2 indicator (Level of water stress: freshwater withdrawal as a percentage of available freshwater resources) at district scale will be presented hydrographic, work conducted by ISPRA in the context of a specific agreement with FAO, and with the support of Istat On 23 March ISPRA is organizing the conference " The silent revolution of water ", promoted as part of the WHOW project (Water Health Open knowledge), whose objective is the creation of a distributed European infrastructure capable of connecting environmental and health data.
  • When Mar 22, 2023 (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)
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