22 March is World Water Day!

This year, World Water Day is taking a closer look at groundwater with the motto “Making the invisible visible”.

We are delighted that this year’s United Nations (UN) World Water Day is focussing on one of our working group’s main areas of research – groundwater. This supports the relevance of and attention for this resource, which is worth protecting, even though it lies hidden beneath the earth’s surface. Numerous activities and events on and around this day provide information about the diverse and interesting aspects of groundwater. Some of these include

• A special lecture by Prof. Johannes Barth (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg & President of the German Section of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH)) on 22 March 2022 at 19:00.
  http://weltwassertag.fau.de/
• Water Dayactivities organised by the German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste (DWA).
  https://de.dwa.de/de/oeffentlichkeitsarbeit.html
• The official United Nations website for World Water Day offers lots of information and materials.
  https://www.worldwaterday.org/
• The United Nations is also organising an exciting hands-on challenge in which anyone can create their own personal 1-minute video on the topic of groundwater.
  https://unric.org/en/one-minute-challenge-mygroundwaterstory-competition/

Following World Water Day, the 28th conference of the FH-DGGV will take place from 23-25 March 2022 with the theme “Groundwater – Climate – Society”, at which some of our colleagues will also be presenting papers.

WHAT IS WORLD WATER DAY
“World Water Day takes place every year on 22 March. It has been celebrated annually by the United Nations since 1993 to celebrate water and raise awareness of the 2 billion people who currently live without access to clean water.”

www.worldwaterday.org/learn