World Water Day 2027 - Theme to be announced

World Water Day - 2027 Theme to be announced

World Water Day, held on 22 March every year since 1993, is an annual United Nations Observance focusing on the importance of fresh water.  

World Water Day celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2.1 billion people living without access to safe water. It is about taking action to tackle the global water crisis. A core focus of World Water Day is to support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030.  

Every year, UN-Water — the UN’s coordination mechanism on water and sanitation — sets the theme for World Water Day. In 2024, the focus was on Leveraging Water for Peace; in 2025, on Glacier Preservation. In 2026, the theme was Water and Gender. Previous themes can be found here.