World Water Day 2025 – an Opportunity for Collective Actions! - UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy on Water Message, Retno Marsudi

Water is the bloodline of humanity and glaciers are the icebound heart of the Earth.

World Water Day 2025 – an Opportunity for Collective Actions!

For over three decades, World Water Day has been more than just a day of commemoration. Each year, it serves as a pivotal opportunity for reflection and evaluation that leads us to a renewed collective commitment for the world’s water.

The challenges facing our water are becoming ever more complex – too little, too much, or too polluted. With limited time, we must intensify and scale up tangible efforts to ensure lasting solutions. Collaboration is key – to building resilience and sustaining water as the source of our lives. Because there is no life without water.

World Water Day 2025: Glaciers Preservation

The theme of this year’s World Water Day provides a unique opportunity. It encourages us to reflect on the current situation of the world’s glaciers. As the Earth’s frozen reservoirs, glaciers sustain the lives of nearly 2 billion people. Through glaciers and their meltwater, a quarter of the world’s population obtains drinking water, ensure food production, and generate clean energy.

Unfortunately, records show a rapid melting of the world’s glaciers. 2023 marked the largest mass loss of glaciers in the last 50 years. This threatens water supply and poses a risk of disasters to those who depend on glaciers for living. Furthermore, it contributes to sea level rise, impacting billions world-wide.

We must act now to preserve our glaciers. Commitments to action must be strengthened to preserve the world’s glaciers. Tackling climate change is among the key priorities we must address. By preserving glaciers, we are preserving our water and our future.

Let us use this World Water Day as a moment of renewed commitment and actions for our water, for our glaciers, for our people, and for our planet! Happy World Water Day 2025.