March 18, 2022
Weekly Wave
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10 vol.
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no. 10
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Water Resources Research Center
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Tucson, AZ
On World Water Day, 2019, I published my first Reflections essay. The United Nations established March 22 as World Water Day in 1993 to raise awareness of global water challenges, including lack of access to water and sanitation. My introduction to World Water Day was in 2013, when after attending an international groundwater meeting in the Netherlands, I had the privilege of participating on the program of a major international gathering in The Hague celebrating World Water Day. The theme that year was International Water Cooperation. Subsequent themes have been Water and Energy, Water and Sustainable Development, Better Water, Better Jobs, Why Waste Water?, Nature for Water, Leaving No One Behind, Water and Climate Change, and Valuing Water.