World Water Day -2025
Today, March 22, World Water Day 2025. World Water Day has been celebrated every year on March 22 since 1993. Its purpose is to highlight the importance of freshwater and increase awareness among humanity.
World Water Day aims to support the United Nations Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation for all by 2030.
The theme of World Water Day 2025 has been selected to highlight the importance of this day and the theme.
The theme of World Water Day 2025 has been selected as ‘Glacier Preservation’.
Currently, the world population is more than 8 billion. Among them, 2.2 billion of this population are deprived of access to safe water.
Glaciers are crucial for life because their meltwater is needed for drinking, agriculture, industry, clean energy, and healthy ecosystems. In the dry season, glaciers supply fresh water to most rivers, helping to sustain flatlands and protect the plants and animals that rely on these habitats. About 2 billion people in the world are directly dependent on the freshwater of glaciers.
Due to the increase in greenhouse gases due to environmental pollution, the temperature of the earth’s surface is gradually increasing. As the temperature of the earth’s surface increases, the winter is getting shorter, while the summer is getting longer.
The glaciers at the mountain’s base aren’t fully forming because winter is too short, and they are melting quickly due to rising temperatures and a longer summer. If the glaciers melt in this way, there will be a crisis of existence of life on earth.
To protect the world’s glaciers, we need to lower the Earth’s surface temperature, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and decrease pollution. This year’s Water Day theme is “Glacier Preservation,” highlighting the importance of glaciers as vital freshwater sources and encouraging action to protect them.
On World Water Day, we must work together to preserve glaciers to address climate change and the global freshwater crisis.
An article in the UK Weekly scientific Journal Nature reports that an average of 273 gigatons of glaciers has been lost each year from 2000 to 2023. Again, the amount of glaciers that have been lost each year in the first half of this period (2000-2011) has increased by an average of 36% in the second half (2012-2023).
As a result of the melting of glaciers, sea levels are also rising.
Key messages for World Water Day 2025
- Glaciers are melting faster than ever. Rising global temperatures from climate change are causing glaciers to shrink, leading to a more unpredictable and extreme water cycle.
- Glacier collapse threatens to destroy. For billions of people, meltwater flows are changing, contributing to floods, droughts, landslides and rising sea levels, and damaging ecosystems.
- Glacier conservation is a crucial strategy for survival. We need to work together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and manage meltwater more sustainably for people and the planet.
