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World Toilet Day 2025 (19 November) is about sanitation in a changing world.
Here are three things to know:
We’ll always need the toilet. No matter what lies ahead, we will always rely on sanit...
This video was shown at the high-level event for the joint celebration of World Water Day 2025 and the first-ever World Day for Glaciers at United Nations headquarters on 21 March 2025. The event a...
Glaciers are more than just giant ice formations—they are dynamic forces of nature that shape our planet and hold the key to our freshwater future. But how do they form? What kinds of glaciers exis...
Toilets are a place for peace.
They protect us and empower us to make progress.
But for billions of people, their sanitation systems are under threat from conflict, climate change, disasters an...
Sustainable Development Goal 6, Indicator 6.6.1 – Water-related ecosystems
(English version)
Our lakes, rivers and wetlands are being degraded – contributing to climate change, biodiversity loss, ...
Sustainable Development Goal 6, Indicator 6.5.1 – Integrated water resources management
(Spanish version)
Sustainable water resources management – where competing demands are balanced across secto...
Sustainable Development Goal 6, Indicator 6.5.1 – Integrated water resources management
(French version)
Sustainable water resources management – where competing demands are balanced across sector...
Sustainable Development Goal 6, Indicator 6.5.1 – Integrated water resources management
(English version).
Sustainable water resources management – where competing demands are balanced across sect...
Sustainable Development Goal 6, Indicator 6.3.2 – Ambient water quality
(English version).
By 2030, the health and livelihoods of 4.8 billion people could be at risk if water quality monitoring is...
Toilets are a place for peace.
Toilets are vital for peace, yet billions still lack safe, secure sanitation. Conflict, climate change, and disasters put these essential services at risk, exacerbat...
Water and sanitation are critical to sustainable development, human rights and peace.
Faster and greater action on water and sanitation will drive progress on climate change, poverty, disease, bi...
World Water Day is an annual United Nations Observance – held on 22 March – focused on inspiring action to tackle the global water crisis.
World Water Day is led by UN-Water and the 2024 Task Forc...
Some nations are on the front line of the #climate crisis, facing severe #water challenges. Farmers in the Pacific Islands can no longer rely on predictable rainfall.
During a visit to the #Solomon...
At UN-Water we often hear three crucial questions:
1) What is the water crisis?
2) Is there a solution?
3) How can each of us contribute?
Watch UN-Water Chair Alvaro Lario responding in this 3 ...
On the 14 and 16 November, the UN-Water Integrated Monitoring Initiative for Sustainable Development Goal 6 (IMI-SDG6) held two consultation webinars for promoting gender contextualization of the S...
On the 14 and 16 November, the UN-Water Integrated Monitoring Initiative for Sustainable Development Goal 6 (IMI-SDG6) held two consultation webinars for promoting gender contextualization of the S...