Events World Water Day 2025
March 22, 2025
The United Nations' 2025 World Water Day theme: "Save our Glaciers."
World Water Day is March 22, 2025
World Water Day is an international observance dedicated to emphasizing the importance of access to freshwater and bringing communities together to create a global awareness campaign. Ever since its initiation by the United Nations (UN) in 1993, World Water Day has constituted a framework for raising awareness for one overarching message: access to water is a fundamental human right. As the public explores this ideology, they are encouraged to take action to create sustainable solutions to the water crisis, such as ensuring equitable access for all individuals, decreasing pollution through alternative and innovative approaches, and promoting global environmental education.
Each year, World Water Day centers around a different theme or topic that impacts water. This year’s theme is “Save Our Glaciers.” Glaciers are imperative to the stability of many different ecosystems and environments, especially in populated regions. Meltwater from glaciers, for example, provides water for drinking and agriculture, among other things. However, climate change is causing glaciers to melt at a faster pace, causing floods, landslides, and sea level rise that can devastate communities. Furthermore, as the global temperature rises and glaciers shrink, the water cycle becomes more unpredictable, thus threatening water accessibility.
World Water Day 2025 calls for the implementation of environmental policies to decrease greenhouse gas emissions to slow glacial retreat, improve glacial meltwater filtration and management, and increase efforts to preserve glaciers through authentic scientific communication.
On this page, you will find more information about a project J-WAFS supports that examines the effects of mining and climate change on glaciers in Chile. You will also find a podcast with an MIT professor who studies the behavior of glaciers in response to environmental factors, as well as other research and news on glaciers from outside of MIT.
