{"id":94204,"date":"2026-03-22T11:34:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T06:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=94204"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:42:36","slug":"world-water-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/world-water-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Water Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>World Water Day Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Prime Minister of India conveyed his greetings to the people on the occasion of World Water Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About World Water Day<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World Water Day has been held on <\/span><b>March<\/b> <b>22 every year since 1993.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an annual United Nations Observance focusing on the <\/span><b>importance of fresh water.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>History<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The idea of World Water Day was first introduced in 1992 during the <\/span><b>United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the conference, the United Nations declared March 22 as the official day to focus on water-related issues worldwide.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A core focus of World Water Day is to support the achievement of <\/span><b>Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Theme (2026): <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Water and Gender.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This theme highlights the important <\/span><b>role of women and girls in water management.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Significance of the World Water Day: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World Water Day raises awareness about serious water challenges such as water scarcity, pollution, and lack of sanitation facilities.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/world-water-day-pm-modi-conservation-of-water-united-nations\/article70771492.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Water Day, observed on March 22, highlights freshwater importance and supports SDG 6 for water and sanitation for all by 2030. Read more about World Water Day, History, Theme, Significance, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":94388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,22,23,1286],"class_list":{"0":"post-94204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"tag-world-water-day","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94204"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94440,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94204\/revisions\/94440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}