World Observes Water Day as Planet Backwashed by Droughts

The globe observes World Water Day 2023 this Wednesday to promote the change in government policies in order to address the water and sanitation problem worldwide.

As the UN states on its website: "All major global issues, from health to hunger, gender equality to jobs, education to industry, and disasters to peace," are hampered by dysfunction in the water cycle.

First designated by the UN in 1993, World Water Day symbolizes the promise that everyone will have properly-managed water and sanitation by 2030, a promise made by the global community in 2015 as part of the 2030 Agenda.

Still, from droughts that choke once-reliant sources to damaging downpours and floods, the world awaits leaders to deliver on their promises.

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A washerman washes clothes on the banks of the river Brahmaputra on World Water Day in Guwahati, India, Wednesday, March 22, 2023.(AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

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The cracked earth of the Sau reservoir is visible north of Barcelona, Spain, March 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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A person without running water at home showers at a spring inside a cave, a day ahead of World Water Day, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

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The wind pumps of Kinderdijk are pictured in Kinderdijk, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

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People get drinking water from a water collecting point at a slum area, in Karachi, Pakistan, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

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People wash their clothes in a public pool of spring water in Japakeh, Indonesia's Aceh province on March 22, 2023, during World Water Day. (Photo by CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP)

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A child, who was displaced from his home by the rising waters of the Paraguay River runs past carrying a container filled with water, on the grounds of his temporary shelter, in Asuncion, Paraguay, Saturday, March 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

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A man stands along the banks of river Yamuna coated with polluted foam in New Delhi on March 21, 2023. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP)

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A water vendor fills water containers from a tanker in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya on Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

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A woman walks on a bridge over the Rimac River, a day ahead of World Water Day, in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

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A resident, without running water at home, fills a container at a water fill station, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

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Franklin Caceres checks a water pump used to collect water from a well in the Petare neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, March 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

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A woman take photos of the dried lakebed at the Canelon Grande dam that provides drinking water for the capital, ahead of World Water Day, in Canelones, Uruguay, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico).

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Fishermen use a net to catch fish that would struggle to survive in the low-oxygen water in order to protect drinking water in the Sau reservoir, about 100 km (62 miles) north of Barcelona. Spain, Monday, March 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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Women argue as they collect drinking water from a mobile water tanker on World Water Day in a residential area in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Planet Marks World Water Day Amid Downstream Crises